"Milan P. Stanic" wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 10:22:44PM -0600, Robert Canary wrote:
> > Well, in the cistron-radius docs it talked about having a slave on other
> > machines to forward requests to the main radius.  I noticed the
> > portslave rpm on required cistron-radius to be installed on the same the
> > machine that hosted the portslave.  It sounded to me like the
> 
> No. Portslave is usually installed on one host (NAS) while the the
> radius server (be it cistron or any other) is on another. Portslave
> is RADIUS client, so it can talk to every RADIUS server without any
> proxy or gateway.

Yes I understand it is a NAS, but while the rpm version of portslave
reqired cistron-radius, it made me start thinking if I was missing
something.

> 
> > cistron-radius would be the slave radius server sending requests to the
> > main radius.
> 
> I think you misread docs.

Yes and no.  I was mistakingly thinking about the proxy.  From Miquel's
tone; I guess it did look sort _stupid_. 
> 
> > However, with the new pam_radius module I was thinking it go to the
> > radius server.  However, I would need portslave to get the accounting
> > sent over.  (less I doctor the ppp binaries, thus recreating the wheel).
> 
> I don't understand what you want to do with portslave. Portslave is a
> NAS, but more strictly it is dial-in NAS. If you just want to send
> RADIUS packets to server there is radclient (in the freeradius package)
> that can do that. Libraries for many programming languages can be found
> on the Net, also.

The Linux box is currently a dial-in server with the standard PPP and
allot of perl scripts, which I want to convert to a radclient......thus
the portslave question.

> 
> Milan
> 
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