README

Welcome to the TOUGHRADIUS project!

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TOUGHRADIUS

A powerful, open-source RADIUS server designed for ISPs, enterprise networks, and carriers. Supports standard RADIUS protocols, RadSec (RADIUS over TLS), and a modern Web management interface.

✨ Core Features

RADIUS Protocol Support

• 🔐 Standard RADIUS - Full support for RFC 2865/2866 authentication and accounting protocols

• 🔒 RadSec - TLS encrypted RADIUS over TCP (RFC 6614)

• 🌐 Multi-Vendor Support - Compatible with major network devices like Cisco, Mikrotik, Huawei, etc.

• ⚡ High Performance - Built with Go, supporting high concurrency processing

Management Features

• 📊 React Admin Interface - Modern Web management dashboard

• 👥 User Management - Complete user account and profile management

• 📈 Real-time Monitoring - Online session monitoring and accounting record queries

• 🔍 Log Auditing - Detailed authentication and accounting logs

Integration Capabilities

• Multi-Database Support - PostgreSQL, SQLite

• 🔌 Flexible Extension - Supports custom authentication and accounting logic

• 📡 Multi-Vendor VSA - Huawei, Mikrotik, Cisco, H3C, etc.

🚀 Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Go 1.24+ (for building from source)

• PostgreSQL or SQLite

• Node.js 18+ (for frontend development)

Installation

1. Build from Source

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/talkincode/toughradius.git
cd toughradius

# Build frontend
cd web
npm install
npm run build
cd ..

# Build backend
go build -o toughradius main.go

2. Use Pre-compiled Version

Download the latest version from the Releases page.

Configuration

1. Copy the configuration template:

cp toughradius.yml toughradius.prod.yml

1. Edit toughradius.prod.yml configuration file:

system:
  appid: ToughRADIUS
  location: Asia/Shanghai
  workdir: ./rundata

database:
  type: sqlite # or postgres
  name: toughradius.db
  # PostgreSQL configuration
  # host: localhost
  # port: 5432
  # user: toughradius
  # passwd: your_password

radiusd:
  enabled: true
  host: 0.0.0.0
  auth_port: 1812 # RADIUS authentication port
  acct_port: 1813 # RADIUS accounting port
  radsec_port: 2083 # RadSec port

web:
  host: 0.0.0.0
  port: 1816 # Web management interface port

EAP Configuration

You can fine-tune authentication behavior via system configuration (sys_config):

• radius.EapMethod: Preferred EAP method (default eap-md5).

• radius.EapEnabledHandlers: List of allowed EAP handlers, separated by commas, e.g., eap-md5,eap-mschapv2. Use * to enable all registered handlers.

This allows you to quickly disable unauthorized EAP methods without interrupting the service.

Running

# Initialize database
./toughradius -initdb -c toughradius.prod.yml

# Start service
./toughradius -c toughradius.prod.yml

Access Web Management Interface: http://localhost:1816

Default Admin Account:

• Username: admin

• Password: Please check the initialization log output

📖 Documentation

• Architecture - v9 version architecture design

• React Admin Refactor - Frontend management interface explanation

• SQLite Support - SQLite database configuration

• Environment Variables - Environment variable configuration guide

🏗️ Project Structure

toughradius/
├── cmd/             # Application entry points
├── internal/        # Private application code
│   ├── adminapi/   # Admin API (New version)
│   ├── radiusd/    # RADIUS service core
│   ├── domain/     # Data models
│   └── webserver/  # Web server
├── pkg/            # Public libraries
├── web/            # React Admin frontend
└── docs/           # Documentation

🔧 Development

Backend Development

# Run tests
go test ./...

# Run benchmark tests
go test -bench=. ./internal/radiusd/

# Start development mode
go run main.go -c toughradius.yml

Frontend Development

cd web
npm install
npm run dev       # Development server
npm run build     # Production build
npm run lint      # Code linting

🤝 Contribution

We welcome contributions in various forms, including but not limited to:

• 🐛 Submitting Bug reports and feature requests

• 📝 Improving documentation

• 💻 Submitting code patches and new features

• 🌍 Helping with translation

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Third-Party Resources

The RADIUS dictionary files in the share/ directory are derived from the FreeRADIUS project and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

🔗 Related Links

• Official Website

• Online Documentation

• RadSec RFC 6614

• RADIUS RFC 2865

• Mikrotik RADIUS Configuration

💎 Sponsors

Thanks to JetBrains for supporting this project!

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