Patches item #1631052, was opened at 2007-01-09 03:38 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by peternixon You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=743022&aid=1631052&group_id=139143
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: modules Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Peter Nixon (peternixon) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Use FreeRADIUS Client instead of radiusclient-ng Initial Comment: Here are patches for 1.1.0 and cvs head to build all radius code against FreeRADIUS Client instead of radiusclient-ng. Please see http://wiki.freeradius.org/Radiusclient Prebuilt freeradius-client rpms are at: http://software.opensuse.org/download/network:/aaa/ Patched versions of openser using FreeRADIUS Client are available as rpms from: http://software.opensuse.org/download/server:/telephony/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Peter Nixon (peternixon) Date: 2007-01-09 18:37 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=52680 Originator: YES At present it could be a configure/compile time option as there is no logic difference between the two libraries. The whole point of this work though is to make OpenSER's RADIUS support work according to RFC (The existing support doesn't). This will require changes both in the radius modules in openser and additional code in freeradius-client. At that point the only sane way to maintain support for radiusclient-ng will be to keep 2 copies of the SER modules. (Think of when openser forked from SER. Initially the code was the same, but the whole goal of the fork is to add new functionality so the code slowly diverges). If the radiusclient-ng folk want to take our changes and incorporate back into their code they are of course more than welcome to. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Klaus Darilion (klaus_darilion) Date: 2007-01-09 13:44 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1318360 Originator: NO Is it possible to make it configurable which client radius library to use (e.g. default=radiusclient-ng)? I think then it is easier to integrate it into openser as many users do not want to change radius client library when the current one is working fine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Peter Nixon (peternixon) Date: 2007-01-09 13:35 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=52680 Originator: YES At the present moment the technical benefit is minimal as there is little code difference between radiusclient-ng and FreeRADIUS Client. This will change over the comming months however. One obvious benefit is that the FreeRADIUS Project has website, wiki and mailing list infrastructure setup to support users. radiusclient-ng has none of these. As a openSUSE user/developer I can't comment for other distros, but radiusclient-ng is not included in SUSE (The older radiusclient is..) and therefore anyway has to be download from my Network:AAA repository the same as freeradius-client. FreeRADIUS Server IS included of course in almost all Linux Distros and I am working on getting freeradius-client included in (at least) future SUSE distros in place of the unmaintained radiusclient. My Network:AAA repo contains both radiusclient-ng and freeradius-client rpms for SUSE 9.3-10.2, Fedora 4-6 and Mandriva. I am not currently packaging for ubuntu or debian as I dont have any familiarity with deb but I will try to add them in future to the repo. (Someone else in the FreeRADIUS project current handles those packages). In any case radiusclient-ng last made a release on November 7, 2005. The FreeRADIUS project makes releases every couple of months, and is one of the most popular radius servers in the world.. A client officially supported and maintained by us seemed a logical step. In anycase, no-one is forced to accept these patches. I simply put them here so that they don't get lost. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Klaus Darilion (klaus_darilion) Date: 2007-01-09 11:34 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1318360 Originator: NO Hi Peter! What is the advantage of using freeradius client instead of radiusclient-ng? Is the freeradius client included in the standard distributions (debian, redhat ..) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Peter Nixon (peternixon) Date: 2007-01-09 03:39 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=52680 Originator: YES File Added: openser-1.1.0-freeradius-client.patch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=743022&aid=1631052&group_id=139143 _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://openser.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
