FAQs
Get answers to our most frequently asked questions.
InkBridge is the new name of Network RADIUS.
We are rebranding as InkBridge Networks in order to better reflect the fact that we offer a diverse range of products and services. While we originally focused on RADIUS, we have since grown to offer products in related foundational network protocols such as TACACS+, DHCPv4, DHCPv6, and DNS.
InkBridge Networks is the company behind FreeRADIUS. FreeRADIUS is an open source RADIUS server, meaning that the source code is free to download and use for anyone.
InkBridge CEO Alan DeKok, originally wrote FreeRADIUS in 1999. As part of our commitment to open source values, InkBridge Networks maintains the FreeRADIUS codebase, documentation, and moderates the FreeRADIUS mailing list. Our commercial work provides products and services related to FreeRADIUS and other related network protocols.
FreeRADIUS is, and will always be, a free open source product.
Most of the internet. Whether it is ISPs, Telecommunications companies, enterprises, universities, or cloud identity providers, they all use FreeRADIUS. While some large companies sell RADIUS servers, FreeRADIUS is used by more systems than all other RADIUS servers combined. Every day, FreeRADIUS authenticates hundreds of millions of users around the world.
This fact is why at InkBridge Networks, we claim that "We authenticate the Internet". We made FreeRADIUS, and it is used everywhere, by everyone, for everything.
Our RADIUS product uses FreeRADIUS as the core RADIUS "engine". However, many companies need additional functionality which does not fit into a RADIUS server program, Functionality which is needed to run the full ecosystem of services around FreeRADIUS.
Our products offer additional monitoring, configuration, reporting, system templating, and automated multi-site management. All features which would have to be added to a "roll your own" RADIUS solution based on FreeRADIUS.
You can download the source code for free at https://freeradius.org/. Pre-built packages are available for free at https://packages.networkradius.com