> > Your point about the DB is well taken, and for that reason (and >> others) we use RADIUS with our DSL Terminator. And pay the price for >> wall the related bugs. For the Max 20s with inherently few >> connections to manage we choose the reliability of RADIUS. If I had a > >Hm, there's probably a negation missing? Ah, yup. Whoops. Well, you get the idea. Bad Max 20-with-RADIUS-and-numbered-interfaces, BAD! > > >Not using that, just point-to-point or "unnumbered" routes. >> >> The prime limitation there is the inability to query the Max via SNMP >> for traffic stats for individual profiles. If one uses numbered >> interfaces MRTG can then be pointed at them. Pretty graphs for the >> NOC and the customer. > >But if you're gathering essentially the same data with RADIUS accounting >anyway, what's the use/need of SNMP in this case? Yes, customers love nice >MRTG (or RDD) graphs, but they don't particularly care where the data is >coming from as long as they're accurate. You'll have a delay of maximum the >"checkpoint" plus some processing with RADIUS, I'll try to go that path >(even though the rest of the lines currently rely on SNMP). Are you planning to pass the accounting data to MRTG for graphing? If so, I'd like to hear how you do it. -- Peter Lalor Infoasis plalor at infoasis.com http://www.infoasis.com/ "Where's my burrito?" -- Homer ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com To get FAQ'd: <http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq>