Captive Portal - Local User Database vs Freeradius

[stinkfly]

Hi there,

Implementing a CP and looking at rolling out about 15-20 users.

Tossing up between using the Local User Database and Freeradius.  Understand Freeradius has better auditing and identity management, use of OTP, integration into AD and more fine-grained control in general.

Any other considerations like supported number of users, security etc;  Have others gone through this thought process?

Cheers
Stinkfly

[Gertjan]

@stinkfly:

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Any other considerations like supported number of users, security etc;  Have others gone through this thought process?

Checkout this thread - in the very same forum where you posted : [HOWTO] Captive portal + FreeRADIUS + local MySQL user friendly single step  « 1 2 3 4 5 … 9 »

There is no such limit as "supported users" : your bandwidth will be depleted way before user authentication starts to crawl. Captive Portals with thousands of users online have been seen already.
Security : well, depends how you set it up ;)