Dave.. I have to back you up!
You just can't beat Radiator.
The fact that you can add your own code to fit your needs makes the product
100 times better than anything else. As far as I am concerned.... Steel
Belted and some others (Like Shiva Access Manager) don't come close to the
potential power of Radiator.
For example. I wanted a system that would restrict my users to 20 hours
per month on my 800# modem pools in the states...yet give those same users
160 hours of dial-in time on other modem pools outside the US. So I just
added my own SQL database for tracking users...popped in my own perl
code...and boom.... I'm done.
That same Radiator config also allows those same users access to my VPN
gateways and doesn' t restrict time at all. For VPN it does authorization
against Windows 2000 (active directory) and passes back group attributes to
provide my VPN with security settings. (I haven't found another Radius
product that can work with AD yet)
I will be adding some code in a week or two that will send
authentication failure information in real-time to a web site for my help
desk to review. This way my help desk can "see" why a user failed
authentication (instead of guessing) and correct the problem faster. Did
I also mention you can re-write user names! This way you can clean up
garbled user names that may have become wacked from line noise or something.
I don't see Steel Belt offering that flexibilty and performance for
around $1000 US dollars for a 2-7 server license.
-Michael Audet
Network Services
Chubb & Son
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kitabjian, Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 3:27 PM
Subject: (RADIATOR) evaluating & comparing Steel-Belted Radius
> Well,
>
> This year (as last year) I am being presented by my management with
> Steel-Belted Radius glossies and a trial CD, and all the features it
> supports. I have a feeling they have a pretty strong presence at ISP-CON
(is
> Radiator there?).
>
> Is there a comparison chart that has been done to show how the features
> differ between the two products? (I'm going to ask the same question to
Funk
> Software).
>
> I'm not sure what they mean by "wireless", "VPN/tunnel", and "broadband",
> but as long as they talk Radius I'm not sure why Radiator couldn't support
> them similarly. We're talking about using the "time of day" restrictions,
> but that should be controllable via standard Reply Items, right? Also, we
> want to turn on port-limit enforcement, and I know Radiator supports that,
> and I don't see what advantage their Concurrency Server option offers.
>
> Any comments and feedback is welcome!
>
> Dave
>
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