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Default Running as a WPA-RADIUS AP?

Can an OpenBSD box with a supported WiFi card run as a Wireless AP with WPA-RADIUS?

I want to be able to give different passwords to different "guests" and it seems like RADIUS is a nice solution but I don't have any experience with it.

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There are three different RADIUS servers in the ports tree. While anything is possible, the underlying encryption used by your chosen NIC shouldn't normally have any impact at a higher protocol layer.
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Hmm I thought WPA works with RADIUS? Hmm...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RADIUS

[edit: WPA is encryption. RADIUS is authentication and authorization, and optionally accounting.]
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So if I use WPA encryption and run a RADIUS server that would work with Windows clients right? I guess what I am really want to do is "802.1X".
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There are some turnkey WPA APs that -integrate- with a back end RADIUS server. However, per http://kerneltrap.org/Quote/WPA_Supp...omment-298955:
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....802.1X is a completely separate protocol, described in a different standard, and was first designed for wired interfaces.

The fact that WPA *can* use 802.1X as its key management protocol does not make them one and the same....
From an OpenBSD perspective, the most recent comments I can find were in this misc@ thread: http://marc.info/?t=122418546800002&r=1&w=2 -- it looks like the answer is -No-. Looking at some work mentioned on tech@, and looking at committed patches that mention 802.1x between 2005 and 2009, it looks like some knobs and hooks for drivers that touch 802.1x compliant hardware are in place, but nothing more.
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So if I use WPA encryption and run a RADIUS server that would work with Windows clients right?
That all depends upon how well Microsoft is supporting the standards too.

I have had some interest in setting up a RADIUS server as well, & from what I have found through searching is that FreeRADIUS is one of the better supported alternatives. Will it take care of your needs? I don't know; you will simply have to research the material found at their Website:

http://wiki.freeradius.org/HOWTO
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Ok that's a lot of stuff to read, reading through it now... thanks guys for the pointers.
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