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Principles of RADIUSdesk NAS Devices
Introduction
Users gain access to the network through a NAS device. These include:
- Captive portals
- WiFi Access Points with WPA2 Enterprise enabled
- VPN servers
- Dial-up servers
- 802.1x enabled Ethernet switches
Direct, Dynamic or VPN
NAS devices can be connected to the the FreeRADIUS in the following ways:
- Direct connection- FreeRADIUS knows the IP Address of the NAS device and this device communicates through the Ethernet connection with FreeRADIUS.
- Dynamic Clients- FreeRADIUS detects and tries to dynamically register NAS devices that has not yet been connected to it, by adding the unknown IP Address to the list of known IP Adresses.
- VPN- The NAS device will connect to the server running FreeRADIUS through a VPN connection who's IP Address is known.
