Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:47:49 -0700 From: Eddie Fry <eddie@eaznet.com> To: Adrian Gonzalez <agonzalez@starbase.globalpc.net> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RADIUS Menus and USR Total Control Netserver Message-ID: <3353F785.3ABA@eaznet.com> References: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.970414174040.6759G@starbase.globalpc.net>
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Adrian Gonzalez wrote: > > Hi I have a question > > We run a local ISP, and have three pools of 16 modems, two of which are > rackmount BOCA modems (2x16), connected via Digiboards to a BSD box. The > third is a US Robotics Total Control Netserver. Now, the problem is I > need to support some sort of login menu on both... like: > > login: foo > password: *** > > Welcome.. blah blah > > choose your service > p) ppp > s) slip > > Response: > > 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. Livingston's RADIUS can only be used on Livingston equipment??? I use Livingston with my USR NetServer nad have no problems. Is this a licensing issue? > > 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. > > 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. > > Thanks for any help you can provide. > > -Adrian Gonzalez > -System Administrator > -GPC Net
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