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Subject: Re: RADIUS Menus and USR Total Control Netserver
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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