Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:27:23 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk> Cc: alexus <ml@db.nexgen.com>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: RADIUS server on FreeBSD 4.x-RELEASE Message-ID: <20010724162706.B50475-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> In-Reply-To: <20010724223708.E83511@jake.akitanet.co.uk>
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Paul Robinson wrote: > 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. 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
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