Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 04:56:27 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> To: Adrian Gonzalez <agonzalez@starbase.globalpc.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RADIUS Menus and USR Total Control Netserver Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970415045626.00b5845c@mixcom.com>
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At 06:04 PM 4/14/97 -0500, Adrian Gonzalez wrote: >I've tested two versions of RADIUS, one from Ascend, and one from >Livingston. The Livingston one works great with menus, but is to be used >only with Livingston equipment. I downloaded and compiled the Merit >version of RADIUS from the ports collection, but it doesn't seem to >support menus. You only need one piece of Livingston equipment that can use RADIUS or is it just one LV unit period? >Has anybody modified the Merit version of RADIUS to allow this? I would >like to use Merit RADIUS because I can get the source code for it, as I >need to tweak some minor details, however, adding menu support would be a >major pain. In fact, I would be happy if I could just display some text >after the user has logged in, and ask a dumb string from the user. The >reason for this is that before we got the USR NetServer, most of our >users had dial scripts that waited for a shell prompt and sent the 'ppp' >command there. We don't really have SLIP users anymore, so I could >really care less what the user types, but the prompt has to be there, or >else we're going to have to start a massive dial script modifying >'campaign', and being that our average user has no clue as to how to go >about this, it could turn out to be quite troublesome. Not sure if Merit has the diffs needed to convert LV RADIUS 2.0 yet. You can ask William Bulley (web@merit.edu), but I haven't seen anything on the Livinston list lately about Merit. This may be all moot regardless if you can't use LV. Personally I would go for the script conversion. How many really use it? One could guess (wrong possibly) that those using scripts have enough know how, but does everyone use them? Not fun, but options confuse, so we avoided such a mess. Now if I can get our last SLIP users to PPP. >As for USR, I've yet to get an answer for them on wether they have ported >their RADIUS server to FreeBSD yet, but everything I've read in the >mailing list archives suggests they haven't. Bwahahaha! Sorry, but I tend to get a bit irked by USR policies and home the 3Com buyout helps things. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990
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