That's why many ISP's don't use MS for 'Mission Critical' tasks. Why do you think they invented server farms? NT can't run more than a few days (memory leaks.. your words) so you put up a whole bunch of servers and hope they all don't crash at the same time. As for one box, one task... well, no. I run RADUIS, secondary DNS, a tech support web server, and in house mail server off on 96Mb AMD 400 Red Hat 5.2 box. Has never slowed or rebooted. We authenticate 3K plus calls a day off it and the NAS has never trapped a radius failure (oh yeah.... it's an snmp management station UCD-SNMP also). Paul Farber Farber Technology farber@admin.f-tech.net Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Mark Thornton wrote:
I use the vircom.com radius server and it is very stable. My recomendation is to not run the radius on a machine doing other tasks, actually I would make the same statement about most mission critical tasks. I have found that many NT applications have memory leaks that eventually take down the server. The machines that are running known stable code are very reliable, but I do have a machine running an application that is problematic in this area.
Mark Thornton San Marcos Internet, Inc. 512-393-5300
----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Swenson <tom@netconx.net> To: <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 11:28 AM Subject: RE: (usr-tc) Total Control Software Questions
I am currently authenticating to a Linux server with Cistron Radius. If I could ever figure out a way to migrate my users/passwords to NT, I might consider it. I am leary, however, because my two NT servers are not nearly as reliable as my Linux is ( I don't mean to start any OS wars here). I am using Platypus as a accounting program and I believe that there are Radius version which will authenticate to the SQL Server. This would be kind of nice.
Thanks for the reply.
Tom Swenson NetConX - Internet Access - Web Design - Client Managed Web Database Applications tom@netconx.net http://www.netconx.net (515) 421-4170 - Voice (515) 423-3351 - FAX
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On 1/6/2000 at 9:25 AM Greg Long wrote:
If your users authenitcate to an NT SAM database then any misspelling of a username can be logged into the event log. That's how we set it up here. Alas I am rather new to the job and haven't been over everything (if it works, leave it alone)
-Greg
-----Original Message----- From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com [mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Tom Swenson Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 12:57 PM To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com Subject: Re: (usr-tc) Total Control Software Questions
I also am from a Portmaster background, and was disappointed to find I couldn't see who was online, how fast, how long, and how idle. I have a pmwho conversion to a usrwho which is working well, but it won't tell connect speed or idle time. I have to either telnet into the TC or use TCM to see how fast. Not very efficient. I also was used to being able to see a user connecting and be able to see if they were misspelling or putting @netconx.net on the end of their username, but I can't see it with the usrwho program. If I'm missing any ways of doing these things, I hope someone would pass along the secrets. Good luck with your TC's, I like mine so far except for the monitoring. There is lot's of good info in the TCM that I didn't have before. I also like going beyond 48 modems in a chassis.
Tom Swenson NetConX - Internet Access - Web Design - Client Managed Web Database Applications tom@netconx.net http://www.netconx.net (515) 421-4170 - Voice (515) 423-3351 - FAX
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On 1/4/2000 at 11:06 PM meijin@vvm.com wrote:
I am inheriting an older Total Control system with a total of (I believe) 46 or 48 modems. I come from a background of Portmaster products. So, I am curious about software. Is there a Radius server for NT that works with this equipment? Also, is there something that is similar to PMVision? That is, allows me to monitor the modems and who is on them and such from the PC? All from an NT environment? Is this stuff bundled with the hardware or is it sold extra? Any apps out on the net for this? Any help?
Thanks!
dr
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