"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 > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html -- robert canary system services OhioCounty.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] (270)298-9331 Office (270)298-7449 Fax - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
