freeradius

Been fighting with freeradius, here are the notes to get it working in Debian
 
In this order
Debian freeradius does not have tls support (which you need)
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-478804.html
http://vuksan.com/linux/dot1x/802-1x-LDAP.html
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/8021X-HOWTO/#confradius
 
So, I have been wanting to do this for almost three years, and I finally got around to getting it working. Pretty cool actually! I guess the pure geek is showing (because I had no real reason to do it, except for the challenge)