Hello Andy -
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 02:43, Andy Dills wrote: > First off, I'd like to mention my positive experience with Radiator...it's > simply fantastic. We've been using a highly hacked 2.15 for almost two > years. I'm now in the process of starting from sratch with a new server > (now FreeBSD, old server was a sparc20), with more agressive goals in > terms of SQL integration and management. We used to use FreeTDS to do the > rudimentary stuff required for sticking auth logs in the MS-SQL 7 based > Platypus. On the new server, I used openlinks package...very nice. If > you're trying to do ODBC from an x86-based Unix client to a Windows-based > DB, openlink is definitely a solid solution. > Thanks for the kind words - we hope you tell everyone about Radiator! > Anyways, going from 2.15 to 2.19, there are tons of new features. > However, one feature I remember I wished I had last time I was deeply > involved in radius (2 years ago), was the ability to call an external > script for NasType...we have an Assured Access NAS (similar to the TNT or > CVX), and I had to hack up a crazy snmp script to extract current > usernames from it (they don't return the usernames in text, but instead in > a funky hex that has to be decoded). It was too ugly to submit. I would > much rather have made that an external program. I still have to port that > up, and I'd like to make it an external app. For some reason the generic > distribution radius.cfg (long version) mentions a NasType of Other, but > says "not implemented yet". Any idea when this will in place? > Hmmmm - yes - I can see that it could be useful. Mike is away for a couple of weeks, but I have copied him on this mail and we will look at it when he returns. In the meantime, you could always use either a PreHandlerHook in the Client clause, or a cascaded AuthBy EXTERNAL clause in the Realm or Handler. There are some example hooks in the file "goodies/hooks.txt". regards Hugh -- Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows 95/98/2000, NT, MacOS X. - Nets: internetwork inventory and management - graphical, extensible, flexible with hardware, software, platform and database independence. === Archive at http://www.open.com.au/archives/radiator/ Announcements on [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.