We use freeradius for accounting and authenication on our Linux main
server.
For our pppoe customers we found FreeBSD to be the best solution. It
has a builtin pppoe server that works in with its ppp software. And
best of all FreeBSD's ppp service can authenicate to a radius server
out of the box.
liran tal wrote:
I disagree.
It is true that their is a trade-in between cost to the time spent to
get a project going but in the area of networking Linux is in such a
remarkable state that it is mostly the commercial companies trying to
always keep up with the open source projects.
If someone doesn't know RADIUS then whether he would have to configure
a freeradius's config file or a cisco router it would probably take him
the same amount of time.
And besides, who talked about doing all of this by himself? that's why
I suggested the daloRAIDUS platform, you get full management of users,
profiles, accounting records, graphs, etc. And it's all web-based. So
ofcourse you have to have some knowledge to get things going but whose
afraid of reading?
Regards,
Liran.
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Daniel Hood
<dsmhood@gmail.com> wrote:
As
much as I hate to say it. No matter how you do it your going to have to
have a trade off between money spent and time spent. An open source
solution in this situation is going to take weeks and possibly months
to configure, due to your inexprience (as far as I can tell) with
RADIUS and routing, but it sounds like you dont have the money to buy a
couple of billion dollars worth of Cisco gear.
The best trade off, would be getting a couple of mid-range Cisco
routers (2800's with extra memory, or 3800's) possibly and having them
run the PPPoE servers and connecting to a couple of fail-over
entry-level 1RU dell boxes running debian and freeradius, connecting to
your customerdatabase. Its the best tradeoff between cost and time
taken. It should only take you a while to set it all up. Plus, if you
get a support contract with Cisco, anything that goes wrong you can
just give them a buzz...
It also depends on what your plans are for expanding. Cause a
completely open source based solution wont hold many more then 4000
clients, unless you know the software back-to-front and can make
changes to the source.
Thats just my two cents.
Daniel
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Michelle
Konzack <linux4michelle@tamay-dogan.net>
wrote:
Good
morning Ross,
Am 2009-03-20 15:37:48, schrieb Ross Halliday:
> If I recall correctly the rp-pppoe server is not
recommended by the
> developers for production use. Here we use some Debian Etch boxes
> running FreeRADIUS to handle the backend and a Redback router for
PPPoE.
> However depending on your load you might be able to pick up an
older
> Cisco on eBay (like a 7200, 7500 or something) or look at Mikrotik
as
> another reader mentioned.
While surfing the website of Redback, I puzzeling, which Router you use?
Do you mean the "SmartEdge Multi-Service Edge Router"?
My Fiber-Optic Network (I use <http://www.gasline.de/>)
is connected in
Karlsruhe, Kehl and Offenburg three times over AS routers to 1000 MBit
uplinks
I offer to each of the 4000 customers 6/1 MBit down/up stream.
Also I want to offer VoIP.
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