Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 13:46:46 -0500 From: Bob Martin <bob@buckhorn.net> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: FBSD-ISP <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Another Favor request with RADIUS Message-ID: <3B5DC296.2004DE71@buckhorn.net> References: <20010724202805.B90847@everest.wananchi.com>
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Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > With the vast amount of experience available on this list, I hope someone > has at least used some proprietary software called EXTENT RBS (For > ISPs) and some legacy equipment from Livingston called Portmaster 2E. > > I've spent most of my life with Portmaster 2E and was whistling all the > way home when my boss decide that we can now advance to Cisco Access > Servers. Due to some emergency my boss dumped another Portmaster 2E and a > USR Modem rack into my office. Being the boss he says there are 20 phone > lines lying idle and what I need to do is to get the portmaster accepting > dialins. > > Now I run this RBS Stuff (sorry, it only runs on Linux) and it works > superb with the Cisco 3600 Access Servers. > > Not with the portmaster. I am not inexperienced with the Portmaster but > this one has gotten me stumped. When I do test runs, the modems handshake > okay but authentication fails. I have configured the Portmaster well, with > a share secret btn it and the RBS Radius Server. I've also read the RBS > manual once again and exhausted all pages talking about the Livingston > product. Nothing shows even on the logs for the RBS Radius server. > > I am suspecting a port mismatch between the Portmaster and the RBS. > While that is simple suspicion, I've read some very nice portmaster > manuals at www.express.ru/docs/ but still can't seem to find a setting to > change the port the Portmaster is using to communicate. My memory seems to > have fast faded but I think the portmaster uses port 1645 UDP for radius > auth. Can someone verify this? RBS uses port 1812 (auth) and 1813 > (accounting). Portmaster has ComOS 3.5 but I can upgrade. > > I need some help, if someone has any ideas. > > MTIA > > -Wash > Your PM2's use the old numbers, 1645/1646 IIRC, the PM Console software will let you change this. -- Bob Martin, CTO InterNet Unlimited http://www.inu.net mailto:bob@inu.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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