From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 19 19:26:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA06384 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 19:26:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pinky.junction.net (pinky.junction.net [199.166.227.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA06376 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 19:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sidhe.memra.com (sidhe.memra.com [199.166.227.105]) by pinky.junction.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA32710 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 18:38:52 -0700 Received: from localhost (michael@localhost) by sidhe.memra.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA12032 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 19:22:56 -0700 Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 19:22:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Dillon To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: newbie isp question In-Reply-To: <199608200056.IAA14177@gandalf.asiapac.net> Message-ID: Organization: Memra Software Inc. - Internet consulting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Swee-Chuan Khoo wrote: > 1) can freebsd machine take more than 65000 user? the uid will > ran out, right? Yes. But if you are going to have that many users you should not be using the UNIX user database but should be building your own user database. If you use the Berekely db format to do this it mates nicely with sendmail and you only need to modify a few services to work with it like POP, IMAP, RADIUS and maybe httpd. > 2) radius. CHAP can't use radius with password pointing to > unix password file, is that true? Not true. RADIUS is a protocol for a NAS (Network Access Server) to communicate with an Authentication Server. The AS can use whatever it wants to for verifying the password and user name. Since CHAP is part of the PPP protocol set, the AS has nothing to do with it. If you have any questions about CHAP and RADIUS you should be asking your NAS vendors whether their PPP implementation will do CHAP and emit RADIUS queries. And if you are looking for a custom billing system built around commercial 4GL RDBMS technology then send me an email. Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com