Radius Server

Radius stands for Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RADIUS).

A RadiusServer is an WirelessSecurity tool. It is an IdentityManagement server for remote users. See http://www.tech-faq.com/radius.shtml

It is said RadiusServer is "the de facto standard authentication provider", even though it is not the 802.11i standard for WiFi.

• outside of WiFi, what do companies use RadiusServer for? What other commercial/stand packages exist?

The MicrosoftWay implementation is called IAS (Internet Authentication Service ). See more at http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/ISA2004-RADIUS-Authentication-Web-Publishing-Rules-Part1.html

A GnuProject version can be seen at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/radius/

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