Re: Merit Radiusd and 'Simultaneous-Use'

Matthew N. Dodd (winter@jurai.net)
Thu, 1 Feb 1996 14:47:17 -0600 (CST)

On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Mike Moskal wrote:
> Hate to bud in here, but I want to add a suggestion.
> Have you tried ESVA Radiusd ???
> It took me only a few minutes to set it up and it handles multi-session
> blocking.
> Pick it up at ftp://ftp.esva.net/pub/radius-esva.tar.gz
> Oh btw I tried the merit version of radiusd and to me I feel that it is
> far to complex for what I will ever need.

Just out of curiosity, I pulled down ESVA to see how they implemented
Simultaneous-Use restriction. Very clean. I had pondered how to
keep the userlist in memory and completly forgotton the single process
mode. A brief look at the code didn't tell me how they are initalizing
the logged on list. If I have to reboot my radius server, I parse
a pmwho and extract user info from it and prep the list before starting
radius. I'm still interested in moving my list off the disk, into memory,
but I have to figure out how to do the IPC stuff as I want to run in
multi process mode. It may be that a shared memory approach would work
best for me, but it probably wouldn't be very portable.

ESVA-radius looks good. Good job guys. (pity I'm locked into my own
mountain of patches.)

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