Chapter 12. Roaming and Proxying
The RADIUS protocol was designed with expandability in mind. If your initial RADIUS deployment only makes use of a local user store it is still possible to join a larger network of RADIUS servers without major changes to the configuration. The focus of this chapter is to help you integrate with other RADIUS servers.
In this chapter we shall:
- Discover the advantages and dangers of roaming
- See what a realm is and how it works in FreeRADIUS
- See how to proxy requests based on realms
- Explore ways to make a proxy setup more robust
So let's get on with it...
Roaming—an overview
Roaming allows you to use the same credentials in various localities to gain Internet access. There are two very common usages of roaming today. Let's ...
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