Radius or captive portal?

Hi,
I would like to protect my home wifi network by using a captive portal or a
radius server to enable WPA on my access point. Any hint? What is the easier
software to use? I found zeroshell at http://www.zeroshell.net
/eng/download that is a livecd with radius and captive portal already
integrated but I think It's too complex for me.
Bye
Peter Elen

"nick" <not@specifed.not> wrote in message
news:aLQUg.134942$zy5.1830630@twister1.libero.it.. .
> Hi,
> I would like to protect my home wifi network by using a captive portal or
> a radius server to enable WPA on my access point. Any hint? What is the
> easier software to use? I found zeroshell at http://www.zeroshell.net
> /eng/download that is a livecd with radius and captive portal already
> integrated but I think It's too complex for me.
> Bye
> Peter Elen

Are you looking for a learning exercise or just a means to tie down your AP?

If the latter, doesn't your AP have WPA-PSK? WPA-PSK doesn't use a radius
server, but is perfectly fine for the home.

My AP's also support WPA-EAP (Radius), but I'm just using WPA-PSK (AES).
One of these days I planned on messing around with it just for the hell of
it, but I see no need for it in a home environment...

CP's are (generally) just used to manage, control, and filter open AP's..

You'd be fine with WPA-PSK. I'd be more concerned about WAN traffic. Use a
decent firewall...

I know that wpa-psk is very easy to use but I prefer an username and
password authentication with e server that logs the accesses. I don't thik
an AP is able to do it.

"nick" <not@specifed.not> wrote in message
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>I know that wpa-psk is very easy to use but I prefer an username and
>password authentication with e server that logs the accesses. I don't thik
>an AP is able to do it.
>

Gotcha.

Take a look at ZoneCD, if you haven't already...

http://www.publicip.net/

I'm using it myself for an open AP, but it should have all the features you
are looking for. Its also very easy and straightforward...

ZoneCD behind a WPA-PSK AP would be much easier than Radius...