It sounds like they have a dialup system running - if they are using Ascend MAXs the manuals that come with them have lots of good information on radius in general -especially attributes. And of course the RFCs. And The RADIUS book. And the FAQs. And the docs that come with the distribution.
And review their design requirements closely. If they are a "small ISP" the use of LDAP and mysql sounds redundant to me unless they are using LDAP for authorization and authentication and mysql for accounting. IMHO if you don't have some other reason to use LDAP, I would stick with just mysql. There is no reason to add complexity to something you are just learning about, and from my experience, the sql solution is a little simpler. However there are lots of good reasons for using LDAP if you are integrating this with another auth server of some kind and want to use a common user database. As far as the best OS - I would recommend the one that runs all the software you need and that you (or whoever is going to maintain the system) knows the best. :) The wireless system could care less what the OS is. Tim > > Hi, > > > > I have started a new job in Linux. > > I have been involved quite a lot into daily system admin functions in > Linux > > as well as Solaris > > Now the requirement for this job are to set up a RADIUS server with LDAP > and > > mysql database. > > This is for a small ISP which will be used for Wireless access > for dial up > > users. > > > > I am completely unaware of RADIUS,LDAP and mysql. > > They want to use FREERADIUS,OPENLDAP from netscape and mysql. > > > > What shoud be the starting point. Which favour of Linux will be far > suitable > > for wirelss applications? > > Any help will be much appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Sagar > > - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
