[freeside] Not (RADIATOR | ICRADIUS)

ivan ivan at 420.am
Sat May 5 02:11:42 PDT 2001


Cistron  http://www.radius.cistron.nl/
  ancestor of most modern RADIUS servers

ICRadius ftp://ftp.cheapnet.net/pub/icradius/
  a cistron variant with MySQL support

Xtradius http://www.xtradius.com/
  a cistron variant with many callbacks including MySQL support.  This
  would probably be a good choice to use in conjunction with the signup
  server.

http://www.freeradius.org/ looks promising for the future - it's a
next-generation RADIUS server by the authors of Cistron and ICRadius.

On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 03:19:28PM -0400, Dana Hudes wrote:
> Thanks for the information. I already found gnu-radius. It failed to compile one of its pieces. I reported the bug, we'll see.
> Looking it over doesn't seem it supports SQL auth just accounting but am not sure -- and I haven't time to dig into broken software.
> 
> I'm rebuilding mysql , its taking quite a long time.
> 
> At this time I am aware of:
> *ICRADIUS -- requires mysql or a real good hack job to rewrite to anything else
> *Cistron - no SQL support
> *RADIATOR - requires mysql. I was not impressed to pay money.
> *IEA RadiusX - had problems (and considering its targeted to linux its weird that its just a tarball, no RPM).
> *xtradius connects to postgresql or mysql.  I think there was some issue about the RADIUS profile support, but it looked good. Will it work with Freeside is the problem.
> *YARD - no sql support
> *Livingston -- no sql support
> *Steel Belted RADIUS -- no Linux, only Solaris or NT.  Very expensive ($4000 for the first component, $995/year maintenance).  When I was working on AGIS nationwide 60,000 port rollout 
> there was no problem to spend money for stuff like this, but when one is working on a ISP with 1200 customers growing to 4000, that's a big chunk of change.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kristian Hoffmann" <khoff at pc-intouch.com>
> To: <ivan-freeside at sisd.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 2:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [freeside] Not (RADIATOR | ICRADIUS)
> 
> 
> > gnu-radius (http://www.gnu.org/software/radius/radius.html) supposedly
> > supports both MySQL and PostgreSQL for accounting and authentication.  
> > I've never used it so I don't know anything else about it.
> > 
> > 
> > Kristian Hoffmann
> > PC-InTOUCH/FireToWire System Administrator
> > khoff at pc-intouch.com
> > ---
> > Relaxen und vatch das blinkenlights!
> > 
> > On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Dana Hudes wrote:
> > 
> > > Is it possible to use FreeSide with a RADIUS other than RADIATOR or ICRADIUS? I would like to use a RADIUS which works with postgresql rather than mysql .
> > > I'm running on RH Linux 7.0 with Perl 5.6.1
> > > (and having some trouble getting MySQL to build while postgresql is fine so rather than fight I'd like to switch).
> > > 
> > > Other than SQL access, what feature(s) of ICRADIUS/RADIATOR is FreeSide using that would not be supplied by a RADIUS that does access postgresql (any user experiences / recommendations?).
> > > 
> > > This for an ISP which will use Cisco As5300 NAS.
> > > 
> > >
> 

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meow
_ivan



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