From what I can deduce from your comments - it doesn't sound like you'll need to buy a $1000AU radius software package just yet (although it is good software). For you scale (I'm guessing - if you have thousands of dial-up customers or somthing, then I'm wrong :) some "freeware" radius package would do fine. I can recomend IC-Radius, although it isn't perfect and isn't exactly mature - but the major advantage to it is that by default it keeps almost all of its configuration, accounting and users in a mysql database. Which for small operations is really handy. I know that that isn't the best reliablility wise - because if the mysql server dies it will refuse to authenticate at all.

If you need somthing more - then use free radius, using a flatfile database - with a perl script and a crontab job to re-generate the flatfile "text file" from the mysql database every 10 or so minutes. Installation and configuration of ic-radius isn't that hard - and they have a semi-active mailing list. Bassically for the install you just need to install the libries required (such as the Perl DBI - so the scipts can talk to your database), install and compile the radiusd binaries - then load the radius "Dictionaries" (a file which contains alot of variable atributes so that your radius can talk to the telecom radius - ask telecom for it). Then you have a working radius server. It even includes a cgi based basic management program to get you started quickly - which has been ported to php. <puts on flame proof jacket> Correct my if I'm wrong - I'm no expert... Malcolm

From: Andy Linton To: Bjorn Nilsen CC: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: Radius server for Telecoms IP.something Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 18:23:36 +1200 (NZST)

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Bjorn Nilsen wrote:

...

Hello,

I want to set up a radius server as we are looking at using Telecoms IP.office/IP.remote (or whatever it is called) here. I have never set up a radius server and only know what I have read about it. I have set up Bind, Apache, QMail and various other Linux based systems so hopefully this is not out of my capabilities. As with all Linux software there is many options to choose from eg: Cistron Radius, Livingston Radius, GNU Radius, ICRadius, FreeRadius. I understand that radius is a standard but from experience (eg: IPSec) different implementations are not always completely compatible. What radius server would people recommend? It is to be used with Telecoms IP.whatever, and needs to run on Linux (or BSD).

Not clear if you want a free server or are prepared to pay for one. If the latter see http://www.open.com.au/radiator/index.html

I've just been setting this up and I like it.

Widely used - see http://www.open.com.au/customerlist.html

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