Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 11:05:20 -0600 From: Bob Martin <bob@inu.net> To: "'freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: accounting on a seperate server Message-ID: <3A365AD0.49F93189@inu.net> References: <B1A7D9973EBED3119ADD009027DC86491808DC@mailman.thenap.com>
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> "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
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