Gerald and Kevin,
Thank you for the reply. I bumped into Interlinks and STEEL-BELTED
RADIUS (U.S. based) a lot when doing a google search. STEEL-BELTED RADIUS
seems to have gotten good review (or just PR hype which I could not
tell). It seems to be expensive as you said (Gerald). The street price
runs from $3000 to $12000.
In regard to gnu-RADIUS, I wonder whether you can comment on
1. It's performance on load balancing and authentication response time
(heard some horrible stories about it).
2. What client appliances (to talk to the RADIUS) available and for what
platform? And cost if possible?
3. As a follow up question of (2) for the audience of this wireless
community, what client appliances (to talk to the RADIUS) that are
available for APs that do not come with RADIUS authentication feature?
Hope this infor is useful to others, and hope to hear others about
their experience --- especially with different vendors.
Bon
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Gerald wrote:
> Just did the research on radius servers for an ISP environment. Here's
> what I know.
>
> Last I checked all but the commercial RADIATOR, and gnu-radius had not
> been patched for the latest vulnerabilities (which could easily have
> changed since I looked) and were not being well maintained.
>
> RADIATOR is written in perl and a really nice program overall I think. It
> costs quite a bit for a production environment though, and the creator
> lives in Australia which makes support e-mail requests pretty interesting.
> Like he gets your request when you are going to bed, and you get his reply
> when he's asleep. It was tedious.
>
> gnu-radius is what we finally went with. It was EASY to setup. It supports
> system or mysql based authentication. It's free, and the current
> maintainer replies to requests on the mailing lists normally same day.
> ...normally within about 2 hrs for informed questions. (read: you actually
> checked the documentation and other sources first)
>
> There's quite a bit of information in their archives as well, and the
> online manual is beyond what I've seen for most RADIUS solutions.
>
> *shrug* Hope that helps.
>
> Gerald
>
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Bon sy wrote:
>
> >
> > I wonder anyone out there uses RADIUS. If so, what brand,
> > how much does it cost, and what's your experience? I am interested in not
> > just FreeRADIUS, but commercial one and feature matrix comparison as well.
> >
> > We got an offer for a low-budget RADIUS for experimenting that for
> > the QC environment. I am hoping to learn from other's experience.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Bon
> >
> >
> >
> >
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