The $1500 will be the best moeny you have spent on software. Vircom is always there to support their product. The are by far the best software company I deal with. If they made a dist of Linux I would probably convert as it would be expected to work and supported... Anyway, we tried to figure out the MS radius and there just isn't any docs on it. We even got involved with MS to work out the issues and MS does not know how it works. At least that was true with the versions available for NT4. Also, there are some very basic accounting data that it does not keep track of and MS replied that it wasn't required by the 'standard'. My response was I didn't care. If the product didn't emulate and surpass a standard unix radius configuration then it sucked. The Vircom product does, and comes with great support! You can run from a database or unix text files. Anyway, you will quickly burn up $1500 in frustration with MS on their version. BTW I'm not down on MS, I just don't get good results with features that are afterthoughts and not strategic corporate directions. IIS works because it has huge corporate momentum behind it, but the vast majority of MS isn't even aware they have a radius product. Mark Thornton San Marcos Internet, Inc 512-393-5300 ----- Original Message ----- From: "USRobotics TC Mailing List" <USRoboticsTCMailingList@imagenisp.com> To: <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:25 AM Subject: RE: (usr-tc) static IP address assignments
I've got Static IP addresses working with Vircom Radius, but would rather not pay the $1,500 US their asking for, just to add Static IP address functionality.
I only need the ability to assign static IP addresses to a couple of users. I've already got dynamic IP assignment from pools working.
I'm using the version of Radius that comes with W2K. I've been using the NT 40 version for about three years now without a single problem, other than I've not been able to assign a static IP address to individual users.
I've got a years experience with FreeBSD, but our authentication is off of NT, and a migration is out of the question right now.
I'm pretty sure I can figure this out, but I think I've missed a concept somewhere along the way.
How does Radius know which Framed-IP-Address to assign a specific user? Is this done with an attribute such as Filter-ID or something else?
-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Mcadams [mailto:jeffm@iglou.com] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:49 AM To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com Subject: Re: (usr-tc) static IP address assignments
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Thank you for the quick responses.
I guess I don't know as much about RADIUS as I should.
I know how to create a radius profile, but what I don't know, is how to assign a specific profile to a specific user.
RADIUS profiles sound like an implementation specific thing, so I don't think I'm gonna be able to help much there.
I'd like to specify the address in Framed-IP-Address rather than having to assign a pool.
Right...the question is, are you going to assign static IP addresses to *all* of your customers, or is this just going to be for specific people, and most everyone else gets dynamic IP addresses still. The typical way of handling that is to have a Framed-IP-Address with the static IP address for the users that get the statics, and have it be 255.255.255.255 for the rest of the users, then define an IP pool on each of your NAS systems for the dynamics to pull from.
The Windows 2000 version of radius doesn't have a Framed-IP-Address attribute, only USR-Framed-IP-Address-Pool.
That version of RADIUS (w2k? gack! ;) may call it something different. Maybe just IP-Address or something like that. I'm totally Unix based here, so don't have specific information on your version of RADIUS. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456
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