[AusNOG] Radiator vs FreeRADIUS

[Greg Anderson]

I was under the impression that the 50 RADIUS client limit was not the case
in Windows Server 2012 Standard and newer.  Is that not the case?


On 20 May 2014 13:33, Chris Lee <chris at datachaos.com.au> wrote:

> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Paul Gear <ausnog at libertysys.com.au>wrote:
>
>> I'm also told that the Windows RADIUS server is pretty decent under 2008
>> R2 & later, so if you've got Windows already you might want to see if it
>> does the job for you.
>>
>>
> Just beware of the 50 RADIUS client limit in standard editions of Windows
> Server.
>
> I started migration into Server 2008 R2 with Network Policy Server
> installed, got to RADIUS client number 50 and couldn't add any more! The
> server that had been run up for me by the sysadmins was only Standard
> edition and so heavily restricted to what you can do with NPS on it.
>
> Luckily we're already licenced for data centre edition so worked out for
> the best since I now have a Windows 2012 datacentre edition and was able to
> export and import my RADIUS clients from the 2008 server and keep adding
> past 50 clients.
>
> So far so good and pretty happy with NPS as RADIUS server, our ASA
> firewalls didn't like the previous FreeRADIUS server (a kludgy port running
> in Windows) for some reason occasionally refusing to authenticate, whereas
> the new Windows server works with the ASA's without a problem, only slight
> glitch I've seen so far is that the RADIUS "Reply-Message" attribute is
> printed twice when you login, not sure if this is a bug in the ASA's
> handling of those messages as all our other switches just show the reply
> message once.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
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