I am 100% Calix E7.  Not sure I need to get too fancy with authentication and 
dhcp.

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> On Feb 22, 2021, at 2:06 PM, Charles Boening <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Right.  We have our telco backend billing system (MACC) and some other custom 
> stuff we handle it all out of.
>  
> We use an in-house developed user management system for creating logins, 
> managing email accounts and assigning radios/routers for provisioning.
>  
> We’re mostly Cambium at this point.  Working on a few legacy WiMAX 
> conversions still.  It’s all RADIUS for bandwidth settings, VLANs and such 
> though for both systems.  We just put the user in the system with the radio 
> MAC and a billing code.  The rest is handled by a custom RADIUS 
> authentication module we wrote.
>  
> We are using SmartRG and Calix routers.  Since we have them in inventory 
> already, we assign the MAC to the customer and it’s automatically 
> authenticated with the Patriot system.  Disconnects are automatically 
> suspended.  A router swap will suspend the old device and authenticate the 
> new device.
>  
> Unknown wireless radios aren’t authorized and known radios not assigned to a 
> customer get a 256k/256k plan.  😊
>  
> We also enforce simultaneous use from the Patriot system.  If a customer has 
> our router then connects their own, the original lease would be suspended on 
> expiration.  If they reconnect the other router, it’s suspended so they would 
> have to authenticate again.  If they try to authenticate multiple devices, 
> the leases will expire and they will have to login again.  There is also a 
> simultaneous use report from the Patriot system we can look at.
>  
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> From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Josh Luthman
> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2021 6:57 AM
> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] DHCPatriot
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> So I take it you don't run a Powercode/Sonar/VISP/etc?  Instead you run 
> DHCPatriot?
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> On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 10:30 PM Charles Boening <[email protected]> wrote:
> It does run Linux under the hood and I believe ISC DHCP. 
>  
> Essentially, I think they have tapped into the lease hooks ISC provided and 
> run custom scripts.  I’ve never seen the code but that’s what I expect based 
> on some ISC customization I’ve done to populate database information when a 
> lease is issued or released.
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> From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Craig Baird
> Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2021 11:41 PM
> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] DHCPatriot
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> The telco I sold my WISP to used it as well. I always wondered why, but never 
> asked. I just assumed it was one of those "If it's free, it can't be good" 
> decisions made by a pointy-haired boss. I just checked into their website. 
> There's a chart there on the home page that shows how obviously awesome it is 
> and how obviously un-awesome the open source ones are. Mostly marketing hype 
> I'd guess. In fact, I'd bet it's an open source DHCP server dressed up in a 
> pretty package with fancy reports and such.
>  
> Craig
>  
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> On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 6:49 PM Steve Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> What is it?
> I can Google it.
> But it doesnt seem interesting 
>  
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2021, 12:48 PM Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]> wrote:
> A company I am partnered with uses DHCPatriot to serve all of its customers.  
> I have never understood what is magic about this compared to free DHCP.
>  
> Does anyone here use it?
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