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I'd like to use Mac OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard Server as an Internet gateway. My router would connect to the Internet facing NIC on my Mac Mini server and the internal NIC would connect to a WiFi access point.

I want to be able to track the bandwidth users on the WiFi network are using, but I am aware of the fact that MAC addresses on wireless clients are easily changed.

How can I do bandwidth accounting based on WiFi clients without MAC addresses, logons each time and having the Internet gateway server act as a DHCP server ?

UPDATE - It appears I want to run RADIUS for WiFi auth and usage accounting...is this available in server/daemon form for Mac OS X 10.6.x Snow Leopard Server ?

Thanks,

Scott

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    Hm. As you told, the Wifi MAC can be easily changed. So, you cannot use it for the identify. When you don't want logon too, how you want identify the client? IMHO, you will need logon. – jm666 Jun 17 '11 at 9:58
  • I'd like to avoid the logon for ease of use...if I have 5 laptops that always connect, having them logon each time can be a hassle. If there's no other way, however, I'll go with logons - do you know of a method using logons ? – Scott Davies Jun 17 '11 at 20:35
  • RADIUS under 10.6 setup info: support.apple.com/kb/PH9052 – Andrew U. Jan 10 '14 at 8:58
  • can you tell us what you are willing to do with this data maybe a better aproach is to do bandwidth limitation. Otherwise you will have to look in the direction of a proxy or a firewall which is capable for this. – konqui Jun 11 '14 at 5:27
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There's a RADIUS server in OS X Server, and it can easily be used for Wi-Fi authentication.

However, traffic accounting is a different thing here. Mac OS X uses Freeradius, which can collect this information, but it is unconfigurable through Server Admin. So, you'll have to set up this by editing proper configuration files manually.

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