title: Authentication Protocol in Freeradius
body: <p>I want to setup a radius server for my college of around 2000 students and a hundred faculties. I am familiar with <code>freeradius</code>+<code>MySQL</code> but never deployed it except for in on my laptop. </p>
  
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  <li>Which <code>Authentication protocol</code> should I Choose if my Considerations are <br> Easy for Users to Connect to <code>NAS</code>, Easy to Setup for the Users.(w/o 3rd party softwares).</li>
  <li>Can I use <code>WPA2-personal</code>?</li>
  <li>Is <code>Certificates</code> necessary and if so how can I implement it?</li>
  <li>Is there any particular <code>EAP</code> flavor that is supported by both Windows and Linux?</li>
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