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Date:      Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:37:08 +0100
From:      Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk>
To:        alexus <ml@db.nexgen.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RADIUS server on FreeBSD 4.x-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20010724223708.E83511@jake.akitanet.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <009601c1147a$06eb15c0$0d00a8c0@alexus>; from ml@db.nexgen.com on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:51:27PM -0400
References:  <009601c1147a$06eb15c0$0d00a8c0@alexus>

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On Jul 24, alexus <ml@db.nexgen.com> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I need to install RADIUS server on FreeBSD 4.2 and/or 4.3 (I dont think it'd
> be whole a lot different) but anyway..
> 
> I went to http://www.livingston.com/ and i was confused due to they have
> version for linux for other os but not for FreeBSD..
> 
> anyone dealt with that? any suggestions? (besides using ports/packages)

Suggestion number one: don't use Livingston RADIUS. The following have all
been played with by myself, and although they require a bit of work to get
up and running (all RADIUS software has a bit of a learning curve due to
lack of proper documentation), they have all worked well for me in a
production environment:

Cistron - probably the most popular RADIUS server out there. Many of the
ones below here are cistron-derived

FreeRadius - promising work, technically "not suitable for production
environments" but it seems quite stable to me

ICRADIUS - specifically designed for users to exist in a MySQL table, so you
get a web front-end to it. In addition, accounting goes to MySQL, so you can
write code that produces nice stats quite quickly

XTRadius - I have had very little experience with this, but this is by far
the most flexible version providing you have time to write code. I haven't
had a chance to benchmark it yet, but am planning to do soon to see how the
external calls affect performance.

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