RadiusDesk

RADIUSdesk is a powerful and user-friendly RADIUS network management platform designed to simplify the administration of network authentication and accounting. It integrates existing open source technologies including Linux, FreeRADIUS, Batman-adv and OpenWrt.

Features:

• Centralized Management web interface: Modern front-end to FreeRADIUS for effortless administration. Manage all users and mesh nodes remotely from a single, user-friendly interface. Streamlined user profiles for efficient access control. Mobile management client.

• Real-time Monitoring: Visual Analytics of user sessions, access logs, traffic

• Automatically configure and optimize your mesh network for optimal performance.

• Customizable Captive Portal: Tailor login pages to your brand and requirements

• Leverages batman-adv and 802.11s/ad-hoc for robust mesh networking.

• Self-healing Networks: automatically re-route traffic to ensure continuous connectivity.

• Scalability: Easily add or remove access points to scale your network as needed. Integrated Batman-adv can potentially scale to hundreds of nodes in a single mesh network.

• Firmware Management: Remotely update and manage firmware across all access points.

• Network Visualization: Mesh network topology, mesh nodes and signal strengths, integrated with Open Street Map for geographic context, monitor node health for optimal performance and issue resolution.

• Powerful tools for managing individual access points

• Data Usage & Time Management: Set limits and manage data usage and time constraints for users and devices.

• Scheduling: Intuitive scheduling for effortless network maintenance and updates.

• Can integrate with Active Directory/LDAP, OpenVPN bridges, pfSense Captive Portal, MQTT compatible IOT devices (including scheduling lights, door access etc)

• Supports Multi-WAN aggregated networking / failover

• Built on top of OpenWrt 23.05.x (as of March 2025), ensuring a stable and secure foundation. Fully open source.

• Requires customised builds of OpenWrt firmware, either pre-built for limited brands/models of access points (https://www.radiusdesk.com/wiki24/network/firmware/compiled) or compile yourself for any access point brand/model that supports OpenWrt - adds a MESHdesk package and theme add-ons - this process is documented (https://www.radiusdesk.com/wiki24/network/firmware/home)