Emerald, and new ISP package for WindowsNT, will have
Radius support. The port of the Livingston Radius
code (I call RadiusNT) will have extensions to
use RadiusNT and allow billing and account
maintenance from one centralized database. RadiusNT
will have the option of reading its information from
this same database, as well.
> Does Livingston and/or merit.edu have a legal lock
> on any of the radius technology? Do other hardware
> vendors support radius? Will they? How strong is
> the 'standard'? Is it totally under the control
> of Livingston and/or merit.edu?
RADIUS is an "open" standard. There is four hardware
vendors I know of supporting some form of Radius. The
standard is really that strong (just look at Ascend).
There is, however, legal copyrights on the source
which Livingston makes available, including not being
able to sell it or modifications to it.
> Can pieces of the Livingston and/or merit.edu code be used
> in a commercial product?
Although not explictly stated, I would say no. The reason is
the copyright does say it can not be distributed for a fee.
-- Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea.com) ________________________________________________ CompuTech WindowsNT FAQ and RadiusNT Network Engineer http://www.iea.com/~daler