nps

Azure RADIUS servers, ICMP and eduroam UK

17 April 2019 at 11:23am

eduroam(UK) Test of Basic Network Connectivity to your ORPS The eduroam UK technical specification mandates that an organisations' ORPS must be PINGable from the three National RADIUS Proxy servers (NRPS) and the eduroam UK support server. This is all part of basic traffic light monitoring (red/amber/green) so we have a 'is the server up?' answer when troubleshooting. (We're moving to Status-Server in-band RADIUS checking where possible, but neither NPS nor ISE (nor previous versions - IAS or ACS) support that.

Improving reliability of Microsoft NPS as an authentication provider for eduroam

Simon Edwins

1 August 2014 at 11:41am

I've spent a fair bit of time over the past month trying to improve the reliability of our RADIUS service for eduroam. Previously it was entirely based on Microsoft NPS which has the tendency to silently discard authentication packets which it should really be rejecting. This creates a problem because if the authentication request originated from outside of your network (i.e.