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Date:      Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:18:51 -0500
From:      "Chuck Rock" <carock@epconline.net>
To:        <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: RADIUS server on FreeBSD 4.x-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <004a01c1148e$9e210440$1805010a@epconline.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010724223708.E83511@jake.akitanet.co.uk>

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What's wrong with ... ascend-radius-980618 ?

Chuck

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Paul Robinson
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 4:37 PM
> To: alexus
> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: RADIUS server on FreeBSD 4.x-RELEASE
>
>
> On Jul 24, alexus <ml@db.nexgen.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > I need to install RADIUS server on FreeBSD 4.2 and/or 4.3 (I
> dont think it'd
> > be whole a lot different) but anyway..
> >
> > I went to http://www.livingston.com/ and i was confused due to they have
> > version for linux for other os but not for FreeBSD..
> >
> > anyone dealt with that? any suggestions? (besides using ports/packages)
>
> Suggestion number one: don't use Livingston RADIUS. The following have all
> been played with by myself, and although they require a bit of work to get
> up and running (all RADIUS software has a bit of a learning curve due to
> lack of proper documentation), they have all worked well for me in a
> production environment:
>
> Cistron - probably the most popular RADIUS server out there. Many of the
> ones below here are cistron-derived
>
> FreeRadius - promising work, technically "not suitable for production
> environments" but it seems quite stable to me
>
> ICRADIUS - specifically designed for users to exist in a MySQL
> table, so you
> get a web front-end to it. In addition, accounting goes to MySQL,
> so you can
> write code that produces nice stats quite quickly
>
> XTRadius - I have had very little experience with this, but this is by far
> the most flexible version providing you have time to write code. I haven't
> had a chance to benchmark it yet, but am planning to do soon to
> see how the
> external calls affect performance.
>
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