[Asterisk-Users] Re: asterisk+radius

2005-03-18 Thread Kamran Ahmad
hello pongco if you are talking about disconnecting a call session at his credit time. then you have to look at ast_channel-whentohangup kamran On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 14:10, Paul P. Pongco wrote: Hello, Im actually deciding if I will use asterisk+radius for AAA purposes or use logging

[Asterisk-Users] Re: asterisk+radius

2005-03-17 Thread Kamran Ahmad
i have written app for billing with asterisk. what is the problem in using radius. kamran __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: asterisk+radius

2005-03-17 Thread Matthew Boehm
Kamran Ahmad wrote: i have written app for billing with asterisk. what is the problem in using radius. kamran Its a pain and redundant. Why run two seperate databases when 1 will do what you need? There is no native radius support for Asterisk. There is an addon, (search the wiki) but

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: asterisk+radius

2005-03-17 Thread Matt
Oh this is sad.. I'm familiar with radius.. and was hoping to be able to use asterisk with freeradius to be able to do call accounting and billing.. so you're telling me this is now not a good idea? Am I better off (for now) parsing the csv report each month? On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:00:09 -0600,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: asterisk+radius

2005-03-17 Thread Michael K. Rodriguez User
I agree, why run to DBs. On the other hand, I have spoken with several people asking about radius support for asterisk because they have a billing solution that uses data from the radius servers to populate their billing DB. -Michael On 3/17/05 11:00 AM, Matthew Boehm [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: asterisk+radius

2005-03-17 Thread izo
set asterisk to log into database directly via there are mysql , postgresql and odbc drivers available. You dont need radius at all, for billing and accounting all u need is a frontend to database On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:29:34 -0500, Matt wrote: Oh this is sad.. I'm familiar with radius.. and

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: asterisk+radius

2005-03-17 Thread Matthew Boehm
Matt wrote: Oh this is sad.. I'm familiar with radius.. and was hoping to be able to use asterisk with freeradius to be able to do call accounting and billing.. so you're telling me this is now not a good idea? Am I better off (for now) parsing the csv report each month? On Thu, 17 Mar 2005

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: asterisk+radius

2005-03-17 Thread leandro_tenorio
. LTenorio -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Boehm Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 3:36 PM To: Matt; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: asterisk+radius Matt wrote: Oh this is sad

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: asterisk+radius

2005-03-17 Thread Paul P. Pongco
Hello, Im actually deciding if I will use asterisk+radius for AAA purposes or use logging directly to mysql and using Asterisk+RealTime to store SIP users to mysql also. Question is, what's the best way to disconnect a user, if for example, he runs out of credits. thanks. On Fri, 2005-03-18 at

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: asterisk+radius

2005-03-17 Thread Paul P. Pongco
oops never mind, ill just read on astcc On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 14:10, Paul P. Pongco wrote: Hello, Im actually deciding if I will use asterisk+radius for AAA purposes or use logging directly to mysql and using Asterisk+RealTime to store SIP users to mysql also. Question is, what's the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS

2003-12-19 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Jeremy McNamara wrote: Chandra wrote: Explain why you think you really need RADIUS Accounting? Why not talk right to the database itself and save yourself that unneeded complication and points of failure. Jerey, ISP's integrating Asterisk could utilize

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS

2003-12-19 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Explain why you think you really need RADIUS Accounting? Why not talk right to the database itself and save yourself that unneeded complication and points of failure. I know this has come up before, and in a perfect world, where *

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS

2003-12-19 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Andrew Thompson wrote: Understand* boxes are in real live actual production now. Once you leave the vacuum of the lab, there are going to be things like this that come up. And many will be for good reasons. Others will be for crappy, legacy reasons. Both

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS

2003-12-19 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Andrew Thompson wrote: - Original Message - From: Doug Shubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS Hello, We use RADIUS with a MySQL backend database server

[Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS

2003-12-11 Thread Chandra
- Original Message - From: Chandra [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 10:37 PM Subject: * with RADIUS hi, i have been looking for implementations of asterisk with RADIUS which would ease for accounting purposes. where can i find more

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS

2003-12-11 Thread Jeremy McNamara
Chandra wrote: hi, i have been looking for implementations of asterisk with RADIUS which would ease for accounting purposes. where can i find more information on this? help. cm Explain why you think you really need RADIUS Accounting? Why not talk right to the database itself

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS

2003-12-11 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
Explain why you think you really need RADIUS Accounting? Why not talk right to the database itself and save yourself that unneeded complication and points of failure. For the exact same reasons RADIUS exists in the first place? Consistency? The ability to change authentication backends

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS

2003-12-11 Thread Jeremy McNamara
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: Explain why you think you really need RADIUS Accounting? Why not talk right to the database itself and save yourself that unneeded complication and points of failure. For the exact same reasons RADIUS exists in the first place? RADIUS was created to authenticate

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS

2003-12-11 Thread Gary
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:30:27 -0500, Jeremy McNamara wrote: Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: The ability to change authentication backends without having to touch *? You can do this already. Passing off authentication to a third party? You can do this already. Ah, pardon my ignorance Jeremy,

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS

2003-12-11 Thread daryl
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy McNamara Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 2:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS [...] Explain why you think you really need RADIUS Accounting

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS

2003-12-11 Thread Andrew Thompson
snip I know this has come up before, and in a perfect world, where * was the primary app, you don't need RADIUS. In enterprise environments where RADIUS accounting is already embedded into other aspects of the workflow, it would be beneficial. Understand* boxes are in real live actual

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS

2003-12-11 Thread Doug Shubert
connection from * would still work with the backend. Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy McNamara Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 2:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS

2003-12-11 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
(dammit, sent to jeremy directly last time, sorry) For the exact same reasons RADIUS exists in the first place? RADIUS was created to authenticate Dialup users a common authentication and accounting system for dialup users, yes. It's grown into a common auth/acct system for user-based

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS

2003-12-11 Thread Andrew Thompson
- Original Message - From: Doug Shubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS Hello, We use RADIUS with a MySQL backend database server for dialup authentication. Because our accounting

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS

2003-12-11 Thread Andrew Thompson
- Original Message - From: Doug Shubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS Hello, We use RADIUS with a MySQL backend database server for dialup authentication. Because our accounting

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS

2003-12-11 Thread James Sharp
Can someone give me an idea exactly what things are intended to be tested via RADIUS, or some other AAA system? Are we talking about building SIP/IAX/H323 entries from RADIUS? This is where the PAM system I developed for * comes into play. I've got most of it working at the moment, but I'm

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS

2003-12-11 Thread Doug Shubert
- Original Message - From: Doug Shubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS Hello, We use RADIUS with a MySQL backend database server for dialup authentication. Because our