Re: waaay offtopic
On Friday 29 May 2020 04:23:42 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Jo, 28 mai 20, 13:35:38, Joe wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 May 2020 07:29:30 -0400
> >
> > Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > > > If one of your machines is always on, and your router can do it
> > > > (most can), you could try RADIUS...
> > >
> > > They are up 24/7. tell me more plz.
> >
> > The comment was a bit light-hearted, RADIUS can be a beast. Debian
> > makes it relatively easy, unless you want to use an authentication
> > method not enabled by default, as I did.
>
> Sorry, but one can't think you are making fun of Gene by even
> mentioning RADIUS to him.
>
Radius may not be so strange to me, as I've been familiar with its head
honcho for nearly 35 years, we both traveled largely the same path thru
the trs-80 color computer field to get where we are today.
> Why should anyone bother with RADIUS for a wireless with at most a
> couple of *trusted* users?
>
In my case, maybe 5 users total. But I haven't looked at it in several
years. And FreeRadius might be just what I'm looking for today.
Probably depends on its support/compatibility with dd-wrt. And that
question hasn't even been asked yet. Time for some googling I think.
Thanks for reminding me of it.
> Kind regards,
> Andrei
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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