From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Oct 6 14:47:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8158A37B401 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 14:47:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blue.centerone.com (blue.centerone.com [204.133.183.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9EE043E7B for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 14:47:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rf-list@centerone.com) Received: from DELIVERANCE-XP.centerone.com (hs5-ifw.wiaas.org [65.102.239.61]) by blue.centerone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA29758; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 15:59:54 -0600 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20021006154622.02007c08@mail.centerone.com> X-Sender: rf-list@mail.centerone.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 15:49:07 -0600 To: "Jorgen Letager Hansen" , "Alexandr" From: Ralph Forsythe Subject: Re: Minimum soft for ISP. Cc: "ISP FreeBSD" In-Reply-To: <003b01c26d70$eb7e6890$0b01a8c0@lethome> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:45 PM 10/6/2002 +0200, Jorgen Letager Hansen wrote: > > For all! > > And what is RADIUS? > > - Alexandr. > > > >Radius is authorisation/accounting Yes, or put differently: RADIUS is a protocol which allows for central authentication on a network. If everything is running from one box and it will always be that way, RADIUS is probably overkill. However if you are using a TC or Livingston box to handle modem communications, you will need RADIUS running on your server so the modems know how to authenticate and account for modem users, assign IP's, etc. Like I mentioned in another email, I use gnu-radius server on my network for modems to authenticate against and it works quite well. There are a few different ones you can run however, depending on your tastes. -rf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message