Linux and eduroam: RADIUS

Posted on 2015-02-16 by Christopher Causer

A service separate from, but tightly coupled to, eduroam is our RADIUS service. This is the service that authenticates a user, making sure that the username and password typed into the password dialog box (or WPA supplicant) is correct. Authorization … Continue reading →

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Linux and eduroam: Monitoring

Posted on 2014-10-20 by Christopher Causer

For the past few months my colleague John and I have been trying to explain the inner most details of the new eduroam service, how it’s put together, how it runs and how it’s managed. These posts haven’t shied away … Continue reading →

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Linux and eduroam: NAT logging, perl and regular expressions

Posted on 2014-09-30 by Christopher Causer

This is a continuation of the series of posts examining the inner workings of eduroam and in particular Linux’s involvement in it. I had originally intended for this to be a post on both logging and monitoring. I now realize … Continue reading →

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Linux and eduroam: Building for speed and scalability

Posted on 2014-08-21 by Christopher Causer

When upgrading the eduroam infrastructure, there was one goal in mind: increase the bandwidth over the previous one. The old infrastructure made use of a Linux box to perform NAT, netflow and firewalling duties. This can all be achieved with … Continue reading →

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Linux and eduroam: link aggregation with LACP bonding

Posted on 2014-07-31 by Christopher Causer

In previous posts, I discussed the roles of routing and NATing in the new eduroam infrastructure . In one sense, that is all you need to create a Linux NAT firewall. However, the setup is not very resilient. The resulting … Continue reading →

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Linux and eduroam: Routing

Posted on 2014-07-21 by Christopher Causer

This is a continuation of the series of blog posts describing the Linux servers in the middle of the new eduroam infrastructure. Packets sent by your eduroam client eventually end up on one of the Linux boxes in the eduroam … Continue reading →

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Linux’s role in the new eduroam infrastructure

Posted on 2014-06-05 by Christopher Causer

People within Oxford University may be aware that the eduroam service has recently been upgraded to increase its bandwidth, which was saturated on the old infrastructure. This included the replacement of two Linux servers which provide services key to the … Continue reading →

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