From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jul 24 19:27:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [216.235.52.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34CE037B406 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:27:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6P2ROM90390; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:27:24 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:27:23 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: Paul Robinson Cc: alexus , Subject: Re: RADIUS server on FreeBSD 4.x-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <20010724223708.E83511@jake.akitanet.co.uk> Message-ID: <20010724162706.B50475-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Paul Robinson wrote: > On Jul 24, alexus 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. Any comments on Merit Radius? Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message