From owner-freebsd-isp Thu May 25 5:40:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx01.iafrica.com.na (mx01.iafrica.com.na [196.31.224.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7908737C03B for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 05:40:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim@iafrica.com.na) Received: from webmail.uunet.com.na ([196.31.224.12] helo=iafrica.com.na) by mx01.iafrica.com.na with smtp (Exim 2.11 #1) id 12uwvB-0002cJ-00; Thu, 25 May 2000 13:39:29 +0100 Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:39:25 +0100 (WAT) To: gskouby@ns0.sitesnow.com Cc: lures@mozcom.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need advice on software for ISP startup using FreeBDS 4.0 X-Mailer: AtDot 2.0.1 X-URL: http://www.uunet.com.na/ Message-Id: From: tim@iafrica.com.na Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You wrote: > From: Greg Skouby > To: Tim Priebe > cc: lures@mozcom.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org > Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 08:28:44 -0400 (EDT) > Subject: Re: Need advice on software for ISP startup using FreeBDS 4.0 > > > > > > > > > 3. No PAP or CHAP Authentication. > > > > > > What kind of authentication are you going to use then? Are you just going > > > to use the user list on the access server? I would strongly suggest using > > > either PAP or CHAP coupled with RADIUS auth. Both of them have their > > > advantages and disadvantages. > > > > The Cisco can be configured to let the dialup connection choose, and I > > rembember from when Windows95 came out that it insisted that it authenticate > > with pap. You want to make it as easy a possible for your clients, or they > > will go elsewhere. > > > > > > I was just saying that their are advantages and disadvantages to using > either CHAP or PAP with the radius. With current radius if you use PAP > then you can go off the password file but if you use CHAP then you need a > line in your users file for every person that wants to dialin. Again, I am > not claiming to be an expert so if I am wrong let me know. Thanks..bye > I was not disagreeing with what you said, only adding that it was possible that users would object if you did not. Tim. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message