From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 5 15:30:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA10856 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 15:30:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.8.15.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA10847 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 15:30:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA24920; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 08:30:13 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 08:30:11 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Hetzels@aol.com cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD and Radius be used for a CyberCafe? In-Reply-To: <970605114635_-1497464831@emout04.mail.aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 5 Jun 1997 Hetzels@aol.com wrote: > I am setting up a new Internet Business in my area. This business would > consits of a CyberCafe and Dial-Up Internet access. > > My Solution for the Dial-Up access is to use the Livingston PM-3 with a > Radius Server for authentication. > > The CyberCafe would have 10 workstations running either Win95/FreeBSD. My > only problem is how do I autenticate the CyberCafe users? Can Radius be used? > > How do I autenticate users on theses workstations using Radius? [other questions deleted] I think you have things a little backwards. Only the terminal server and radius server need to understand Radius. The workstations don't. Run radiusd on a FreeBSD box which has an ethernet connection to the PM, or just define users in the PM itself. It depends on how many users you want to authenticate. Most cafes I know of charge by the 1/2 hour and it does not matter who is using the terminal. Yes, you do need a single password file, unless you can define alternate radius servers in the PM, so you can have redundancy or two password files with different admins. The win95 box will just use standard PAP authentication. Danny