From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jul 24 14:36:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from jake.akitanet.co.uk (jake.akitanet.co.uk [212.1.130.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11C3237B403 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 14:36:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wiggy@wopr.akitanet.co.uk) Received: from dsl-212-135-208-201.dsl.easynet.co.uk ([212.135.208.201] helo=wopr.akitanet.co.uk) by jake.akitanet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #3) id 15P9pb-000FhJ-00; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:35:07 +0100 Received: from wiggy by wopr.akitanet.co.uk with local (Exim 3.21 #2) id 15P9rY-0008Oq-00; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:37:08 +0100 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:37:08 +0100 From: Paul Robinson To: alexus Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RADIUS server on FreeBSD 4.x-RELEASE Message-ID: <20010724223708.E83511@jake.akitanet.co.uk> References: <009601c1147a$06eb15c0$0d00a8c0@alexus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <009601c1147a$06eb15c0$0d00a8c0@alexus>; from ml@db.nexgen.com on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:51:27PM -0400 X-Scanner: exiscan *15P9pb-000FhJ-00*$AK$hL9pp3F6d/n5iB6DRNh.s/* 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 On Jul 24, alexus wrote: > Hello > > I need to install RADIUS server on FreeBSD 4.2 and/or 4.3 (I dont think it'd > be whole a lot different) but anyway.. > > I went to http://www.livingston.com/ and i was confused due to they have > version for linux for other os but not for FreeBSD.. > > anyone dealt with that? any suggestions? (besides using ports/packages) Suggestion number one: don't use Livingston RADIUS. The following have all been played with by myself, and although they require a bit of work to get up and running (all RADIUS software has a bit of a learning curve due to lack of proper documentation), they have all worked well for me in a production environment: Cistron - probably the most popular RADIUS server out there. Many of the ones below here are cistron-derived FreeRadius - promising work, technically "not suitable for production environments" but it seems quite stable to me ICRADIUS - specifically designed for users to exist in a MySQL table, so you get a web front-end to it. In addition, accounting goes to MySQL, so you can write code that produces nice stats quite quickly XTRadius - I have had very little experience with this, but this is by far the most flexible version providing you have time to write code. I haven't had a chance to benchmark it yet, but am planning to do soon to see how the external calls affect performance. -- Paul Robinson ,--------------------------------------- Technical Director @ Akita | A computer lets you make more mistakes PO Box 604, Manchester, M60 3PR | than any other invention with the T: +44 (0) 161 228 6388 (F:6389)| possible exceptions of handguns and | Tequila - Mitch Ratcliffe `----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message