[Cialug] Managed WiFi

Jeffrey Ollie jeff at ocjtech.us
Thu Jan 30 17:15:50 UTC 2020


Even Unifi requires a separate RADIUS server for client authentication with
WPA2-Enterprise, the authentication built into the Unifi Controller is for
administrators only. If you're deploying new network gear I'd agree that
Unifi is an excellent choice though.


On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 10:48 AM David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ubiquiti Unifi is the way to go.
>
> -dc
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 10:41 AM Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
>
> > Everything that I've seen for managing authentication across multiple
> > access points has involved setting up a RADIUS server. I think that even
> > many basic home APs/routers can be configured to use RADIUS, and
> definitely
> > anything with small business/enterprise pretensions can as well. It's
> been
> > a long time since I've done anything with it, but FreeRADIUS is/was the
> > de-facto standard. I don't think that it includes a GUI by itself but
> there
> > are probably a lot of wrappers around it that do.
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 10:27 AM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Have never dealt with one, .. is there a simple way to manage user
> > > authentication on two or three APs?
> > >
> > > Don't need anything too fancy, just a central management page.
> > >
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