From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Dec 12 9: 6:17 2000 From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 09:06:14 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from inu.net (mail.inu.net [63.151.4.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 419BE37B400 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:06:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from inu.net [63.151.3.239] by inu.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id AB00A3701A0; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 11:06:08 -0600 Sender: bob@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3A365AD0.49F93189@inu.net> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 11:05:20 -0600 From: Bob Martin Organization: InterNet Unlimited X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "'freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: accounting on a seperate server References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > "Drew J. Weaver" wrote: > > Right, I know but im asking if there is software that does just > accounting? > > -Drew > I'll clarify. You have a server, we'll call it box1. It handles the authentication for your users. But you want the accounting to go to a differnt server, we'll call it box2. You install radius on box2, but you don't give it a list of users. You tell your NAS's to use box1 for radius authentication, and to use box2 for radius accounting. (And as a free bonus, you get a backup authentication server if you like) As an alternative to radius, you can write accounting to a log server, which will talk to the syslogd facility on your FreeBSD box. It is somewhat more involved to go this route, and while I've never seen a NAS that won't write to a syslog daemon, it's certainly less universal than radius. -- 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