Re: Design question - proxying RADIUS auth request to a backend webservice

On 17 Feb 2013, at 18:38, Walter Goulet wrote: > Thanks for your input; your descriptions of limitations you ran into is > helpful. I think I will stick with using rlm_perl for now; I definitely don't > want to tackle writing my own stripped down RADIUS server. If performance or > scale becom

Re: Design question - proxying RADIUS auth request to a backend webservice

Thanks for your input; your descriptions of limitations you ran into is helpful. I think I will stick with using rlm_perl for now; I definitely don't want to tackle writing my own stripped down RADIUS server. If performance or scale become problems I will investigate other options at that time. O

Re: Design question - proxying RADIUS auth request to a backend webservice

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Walter Goulet wrote: > I'm looking for some input from the experts to help validate a solution > approach that I've come up with. The problem I'm trying to solve is that > allow NAS equipment and other RADIUS clients to authenticate users against a > proprietary a

Re: Design question - proxying RADIUS auth request to a backend webservice

Oh wow; that's even cooler! I'll give that module a shot. Thanks! On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 4:12 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > >The question to the list, are there other solution approaches that > might > >be better? Any significant disadvantages to using rlm_perl as I've > >described? Would

Re: Design question - proxying RADIUS auth request to a backend webservice

Hi, >The question to the list, are there other solution approaches that might >be better? Any significant disadvantages to using rlm_perl as I've >described? Would it be better to write a custom module instead, hoping >that by doing so there may be some performance improvements? P

Re: Design question - proxying RADIUS auth request to a backend webservice

Walter Goulet wrote: > I'm looking for some input from the experts to help validate a solution > approach that I've come up with. The problem I'm trying to solve is that > allow NAS equipment and other RADIUS clients to authenticate users > against a proprietary authentication service that uses RES

Design question - proxying RADIUS auth request to a backend webservice

Hi, I'm looking for some input from the experts to help validate a solution approach that I've come up with. The problem I'm trying to solve is that allow NAS equipment and other RADIUS clients to authenticate users against a proprietary authentication service that uses REST APIs over HTTP. The s