Product Information
What is Radiusdesk?
RadiusDesk is a powerful and user-friendly RADIUS network management platform designed to simplify the administration of network authentication and billing. It integrates existing open-source technologies, including Linux, FreeRADIUS, Batman-adv, and OpenWrt.
Features:
- **Centralized Web Management Interface**: A modern frontend for FreeRADIUS, enabling easy management. Remotely oversee all users and mesh nodes through an intuitive interface. Simplified user profiles for efficient access control. Mobile management client.
- **Real-Time Monitoring**: Visual analytics for user sessions, access logs, and traffic.
- **Automatic Mesh Network Configuration & Optimization**: Ensures peak performance.
- **Customizable Captive Portal**: Tailor login pages to match your branding and requirements.
- **Robust Mesh Networking**: Leverages batman-adv and 802.11s/ad-hoc.
- **Self-Healing Network**: Automatically reroutes traffic to maintain continuous connectivity.
- **Scalability**: Easily add or remove access points to expand the network as needed. Integrated Batman-adv supports scaling to hundreds of nodes in a single mesh network.
- **Firmware Management**: Remotely update and manage firmware for all access points.
- **Network Visualization**: Mesh network topology, node mapping, and signal strength, integrated with OpenStreetMap for geographical context. Monitor node health for optimal performance and troubleshooting.
- **Powerful Tools for Managing Individual Access Points**
- **Data Usage & Time Management**: Set limits and manage data/time restrictions for users and devices.
- **Scheduling**: Intuitive scheduling for seamless network maintenance and updates.
- **Integration Capabilities**: Compatible with Active Directory/LDAP, OpenVPN bridges, pfSense Captive Portal, and MQTT-enabled IoT devices (including scheduled lighting, access control, etc.).
- **Multi-WAN Aggregation/Failover Support**
- **Built on OpenWrt 23.05.x (as of March 2025)**: Ensures a stable, secure foundation. Fully open-source.
**Requires Custom OpenWrt Firmware**: Either pre-built for select access point brands/models (https://www.RadiusDesk.com/wiki24/network/firmware/compiled) or self-compiled for any OpenWrt-supported brand/model—by adding the MESHdesk package and theme plugin. This process is documented (https://www.RadiusDesk.com/wiki24/network/firmware/home).
How to use Radiusdesk?
Radiusdesk is a powerful and user-friendly RADIUS network management platform designed to simplify network authentication and billing management, offering WiFi network setup and data usage management.
Core Functions of Radiusdesk
Privacy-first
No tracking
No Registration Required
Ad-Free
Mesh networking
Software-defined networking
Usage Scenarios of Radiusdesk
- Remotely manage users and mesh network nodes
- Automatically configure and optimize mesh network performance
- Customize guest portal login pages
- Set data usage and time limits for users and devices
- Remotely update and manage firmware for all access points
- Integrate IoT devices for smart control, such as lighting and access
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