Ok, I'm about to dive headfirst into Radiator, and I wanted to ask a few
questions in advance. I'm somewhat competent, so this isn't a "I haven't
tried this yet but I need help before I even get started" post, more like
"hopefully somebody has been in this situation before and can offer some
advice".
I've got some sparc stations that I want to do the authentication from.
Right now, I use cistron, so the users file will transition quite nicely.
This isn't a problem. The session DB will be handled by our mysql server,
so I don't anticipate that being a problem either.
The interesting part: I want to log the authentication to my platypus
billing server, running on NT with MS SQL. I don't want to authenticate,
just store the logging, so we can get usage reports integrated with the
billing.
So, what's the best way to do this? Is there a stable and free interface
from Unix to MS SQL? I started downloading some perl modules and reading
web pages, and the only two drivers I found cost money. So, it looks like
FreeTDS is the only way to fly, but just looking at it makes me shiver a
little bit.
Plus, I was thinking it my be somewhat pointless in the first place. Would
it not be better to disable accounting on the Unix servers, and set up
radiator on the NT server, and have it do nothing but inject accounting
records into the SQL db?
However, I'm not sure if that will break any functionality. Most
importantly, will it in any way hinder the session support? Does perl
under NT easily communicate with MySQL?
So, I just need a little advice. Go with FreeTDS under Solaris (and if so,
how do I authby users and send accounting to platypus?), or keep the auth
and acct servers seperate, each on their own platform (but each
communicating with the mysql server for session support)?
Lastly, a side question. Our main pop has an Assured Access X1000. Has
anybody written support for it as a NasType?
Thanks,
Andy
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