From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jul 4 02:09:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA17524 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 02:09:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shadows.aeon.net (bsdisp@shadows.aeon.net [194.100.41.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA17515 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 02:09:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bsdisp@localhost) by shadows.aeon.net (8.8.6/8.8.3) id MAA00106 for isp@freebsd.org; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 12:09:50 +0300 (EET DST) From: mika ruohotie Message-Id: <199707040909.MAA00106@shadows.aeon.net> Subject: Re: HELP ON: Cisco's, Ascend, Routing, and User Management. In-Reply-To: from "Gary D. Margiotta" at "Jul 3, 97 08:34:04 pm" To: isp@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 12:09:50 +0300 (EET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 2) Has anyione actually got either Ascend's or Ciscos software for the > > user manager working with FreeBSD? > Will know in about 2 weeks on that one...we are planning on using the > Cisco TACACS+ accounting which comes standard with the Cisco's...The > documentation I have on it makes it sound extremely superior to RADIUS, > but I have no experience with RADIUS as of yet, so I can make no fair > comparison. tac_plus _is_ superrior to any radius i've seen so far. and works well on both 2.1-stable and 2.2-stable. i have a friend who has/is building a product that's using a database instead of plain text file for the users file, scales into a huge systems much more easier... the only thing in tac_plus i dont like is the fact it requires cisco hardware... actually, while i comment, i'm getting between rock and the hard place in thinking which to use, pm3 or as5200, the fact i could use tac_plus with the as5200 makes it _very_ tempting box... but then again... mickey