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Date:      Wed, 31 May 2000 11:33:14 -0400
From:      "Troy Settle" <troy@picus.com>
To:        "Ryugen C. Fisher" <Ryugen@palaver.org>, "Dan Harnett" <danh@wzrd.com>
Cc:        "Corey Ralph" <corey@net-tech.com.au>, <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Using radius to NT server?
Message-ID:  <NIEBLEDADLBOBAJFKPHDGEFKCAAA.troy@picus.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000531101912.00a98a10@mail.palaver.org>

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** IIRC the port 1645 for Radius is the port that is used by Livingston for
** there Portmaster Routers, etc. Livingston (now a div of AT&T) is

Livingston was borged by Lucent, not AT&T.  Lucent was spun from AT&T after
the breakup (IIRC).

** the shop
** where Radius was first drafted, written and implemented. As a
** result most
** "older" radius software and hardware use the 1645 port...  I
** have not read
** the RFC and would frankly be curious as to how the port got changed from
** the "factory' spec  to port 1812.

Livingston used 1645/1646 because they thought those ports were availiable.
In reality, those ports were reserved for some obscure service.  When the
IETF(?) got ahold of the Radius RFC, they found a pair of ports more
suitable for the application.  1812/1813.

-Troy



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