Break time: RADIUS, ActiveDirectory, and everything in between

Status update

The next thing I had planned was to link my virtual Cisco devices to my Windows domain, so I could do a couple things: control login access to the devices themselves, and set up 802.lx authentication for connected VMs.

There's a couple things I need to do for that to happen:

1. Set up a RADIUS server for the Cisco devices to talk to.
2. Set up an SMB server to act as a "go-between" between the RADIUS server, and the Windows domain controller.

At this point, though, I'm solidly in the realm of protocols and software that I have very little understanding of: FreeRADIUS to implement RADIUS, Samba/Kerberos to implement SMB, and configuring Samba to talk to the domain controller via LDAP 

So for now, I've made myself a Kindle reading list on Samba/Kerberos/LDAP so I can get an understanding of all the pieces I'm trying to put together.

So once I've gotten through that, I'll start attacking the actual setup.

More to come...