Hello Bon -
I am not quite sure what you are asking, but keep in mind that the Radius protocol is only used for the initial authentication and subsequent accounting for a particular connection request. In other words, the rest of the connection, be it L2TP or IPSEC, does not depend on radius at all. If you are talking about the authentication phase itself, you are correct in saying that "these protocols do not mix well...", given that it is the radius protocol itself that has been "extended" to carry other protocols inside it. The real answer is a re-engineering of a AAA protocol, and that is what "Diameter" is. If you are interested in this area, I suggest you have a look at the relevant IETF documents. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-aaa-diameter-12.txt regards Hugh On Sunday, September 29, 2002, at 05:05 AM, Bon sy wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just started reading L2TP and IPSEC. I try to understand, but > could not quite figure it out yet how to put in the proper context of > RADIUS protocol. For example, can we have L2TP over IPSEC on top of > RADIUS > protocol? Is it necessary? What are the (dis)advantage(s) it brings > forth? > Or it's pretty much these protocols do not mix well with each > other. Anyone in the group has any experience about this? What are the > architectural options out there from the implementation point of view? > > Thanks! > > Bon > > > === > 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. > > -- 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.