Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 17:38:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, ben@scientia.demon.co.uk, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filtering port 25 (was Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups) Message-ID: <199909291738.KAA16940@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199909290112.SAA17852@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Sep 28, 99 06:12:37 pm
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> > FWIW, most ISPs buy POPs (Points of Presense) from a big provider, > > and do not control the IP address assignment (even for static IP > > addresses) nor do they control the account name assignments, which > > must apriori not conflict with existing RADIUS records from the > > middle tier provider. > > Technical correction, they do control the account name assignments, > which is done through domainized versions of RADIUS by apending > a @domain that is used by a local to the POP radius proxy to forward > the request to the correct client of the big provider. Radiator > and Merit Radius both have this feature and are used extensivly > by the wholesale dialup providers. The technical name of this suffix is called the RADIUS "realm". Not everyone uses this, as they require license fees. > We have contracts with some of these wholesale providers and we > totally control the account name portion. We don't even need to call > them when we add/delete accounts. I assume you are talking accounts using dynamic IP assignment? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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