On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Michael Melanson wrote:
> I am new to linux as well as free radius. > > I am involved in a project to create an open network architechure. > > I envision radius and eap to accomplish this > > Please advise what is the best Linux to use with free radius
Hi. I really agree with Thor Spruyt who said that you should install some distributions and see which one you feel most comfortable with. RedHat is going to more of a high-priced subscription version, so you may want to try out its free version, "Fedora" (http://fedora.redhat.com/) if your budget is a concern. Novell just bought SuSE Linux, so I'm not sure how that's going to pan out, support and price-wise. My favorite is Debian for various reasons including ease of install/upgrade and stability, but really, try out several, read the documentation, and see which one you like best.
My 2 cents worth, is take a look at Slackware. :)
You might also consider trying OpenBSD or FreeBSD instead of a Linux distribution.
There are some thread issues on Free/Open BSD at the moment I believe so you might not get the best performance out of FreeRADIUS on those systems.
The latest FreeBSD release adds some previously missing functions to FreeBSD ( namely a working threadsafe get(host|name)by*_r() ). The work to add that to the configure/build process has not been done yet however.
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