Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:38:56 +0200 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: paul@akita.co.uk Cc: newton@internode.com.au, ml@db.nexgen.com, carock@epconline.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RADIUS server on FreeBSD 4.x-RELEASE Message-ID: <59806.996057536@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:56:32 %2B0100" References: <20010725095632.F83511@jake.akitanet.co.uk>
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> On Jul 24, Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au> wrote: > > > Radiator. http://www.open.com.au/radiator > > Indeed, a very capable RADIUS server. Unfortunately for a single server it > costs $620, and for 2-7 servers it's $992. I didn't include this in the > run-down I gave because I tend to concentrate on open-source solutions. The > closest to this out of the list I gave is going to be either FreeRadius > (which offers nearly all of this but is still beta) or XTRadius where you > can call any external program you want for authentication or accounting, > meaning that with an afternoon of Perl scripting you can do everything > Radiator can, specific to your site. Some of us concluded differently. At our site we use Radiator, and are happy with it. We have used other Radius packages in the past, and we evaluated several of the freely available ones before choosing Radiator. If we were to choose again today, I'm pretty sure we would still choose Radiator. The cost may be significant - it depends on the size of your customer base and what your own work hours are worth. We have a customer base of around 100k customers, and the cost of Radiator is down in the noise. (We also use other commercial packages running on FreeBSD - for instance CommuniGate Pro, see www.stalker.com. This does not mean that we don't like open source software - it simply means that we have decided that for *our* organization and customer base, the total cost would be lower with a particular commercial package. In other parts of the organization we use Postfix, qmail, Apache and other open source software. For us the point is not to use open source software for everything, it is to use whatever software is available and gives us the lowest total cost. Often this will be open source software, but not always...) Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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