Heh sorry I started this. But the extras are vast any many with Radiator is why tooted its horn. Support for just about every known SQL version, mysql, oracle, MsSql, etc for radius logs, auth logs, account logs, storing usernames passwords etc. Written in Object Oriented Perl, with hooks builtin for one to write there own Perl code to do absolutely anything you deisre at login or logoff that perl code can do, handlers and realm support beyond belief so you can customize to your hearts content, load balancing for redundancy on the radius itself, builtin support for most major ISP billing software packages etc. True if all you need is verify a password and log to a text file, then any will do, but when you need billing features, database support, the abiltiy to customize without major source code hacks, excellent support from the author Here's a excerp of its features and why I Recommend it when you need to get down and dirty with Radius and not just simply log it to a text file (Thats all I meant by 'toy', i didnt mean to be disrespectful. I just meant free and only including basic features) *** Radiator is a highly configurable and extensible Radius server that allows you to easily customize and control how you authenticate users and record accounting information. Radiator can authenticate users from passwords held in: Flat files DBM files Unix password files and similar formats Remote Radius servers (proxying) SQL databases, including Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Microsoft SQL 6.5 and 7.0, Ingres, mSQL, mysql, ODBC and others. iPASS Roaming Network GRIC Global Roaming Network RAdmin, the Radius User Administration system from Open System Consultants Platypus ISP billing system from Boardtown Rodopi ISP billing system Emerald ISP billing system from IEA Interbiller ISP billing system Optigold ISP billing system LDAP databases NIS+ PAM TacacsPlus your own legacy user database Native NT user database (even from Unix!) External programs Microsoft Active Directory Other methods contributed by Radiator users Radiator can record user accounting information in Flat files in standard Radius detail file format Unix wtmp format files SQL databases, including Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Microsoft SQL 6.5 and 7.0, Ingres, mSQL, mysql, ODBC and others. Remote Radius servers RAdmin, the Radius User Administration system from Open System Consultants Platypus ISP billing system from Boardtown Rodopi ISP billing system Emerald ISP billing system from IEA Your own legacy usage database External programs Radiator can manage multiple clients and realms, possibly with multiple different authentication methods in each realm, and includes special features not found in other servers like username rewriting and vendor-specific Radius attributes. A full suite of load balancing modules is included. Radiator runs on most Unix hosts, Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and MacOS X. It is written entirely in Perl, and is therefore highly portable. Full source code is supplied, so you can alter the behaviour of Radiator's internals if you need to. There is a standardized way of adding new authentication and accounting handlers, so you can easily integrate Radiator with other legacy systems and software. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Adams" <cmadams at HiWAAY.net> To: <ascend-users at bungi.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 2:43 PM Subject: Re: (ASCEND) What RADIUS server? > Once upon a time, Thomas C Kinnen <tkinnen at lucentradius.com> said: > > up at 3.am wrote: > > > "Toy versions"? I guess FreeBSD is a "Toy OS" and only Solaris, HP/UX, > > > etc. are "real". Yeah, radiator has alot of neat features. However, alot > > > of people find that cistron and freeradius do everything they need a > > > radiusd to do. Certainly alot more than Lucendington's... > > > > I'm assuming you mean the old 1.16 and 2.1 no charge servers. > > FreeRadius/Cistron does not come close to what NavisRadius 3.x or the upcoming > > 4.x can do. > > But does everyone need all the extra features? I don't see that much > difference in the feature set of FreeRADIUS and NavisRadius 3.0 (except > that FreeRADIUS doesn't depend on a reliable Java runtime). I currently > use Cistron RADIUS with some local patches, and it meets my needs quite > well. > > When Livingston started using Java for their GUI management tools, I > thought it was a good idea. I don't like Java for a daemon that I have > to have 100% reliability from though. I'd use Radiator (written in > Perl) before using something written in Java. > -- > Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> > Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services > I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. > ++ 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> > ++ 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>