Re: (RADIUS) concurrent user logins (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@megazone.org)
Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:11:15 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Nick Waterman shaped the electrons to say...
>Most of them. Cistron's does, Cristian Gafton's patches do, Merit AAA
>does, even the NEXT version of Livingston does.

Not so. First off, ONLY CISTRON currently does this the proper way. Relying
only on RADIUS to do so is inherently flawed, and I've explained why at
length on this list many, many times inthe past.

Secondly, there are NO plans to do this in the free version of Lucent's
RADIUS server. It is NOT a simple task, and the moment you add multiple
servers, etc it becomes a HUGE problem. NO server does this well today
IMHO.

It WILL be part of the commercial RADIUS ABMM product, which uses a
distributed database on the backend and so works for multiple servers, etc,
and also uses SNMP to backstop RADIUS - which is what Cistron does.

-MZ

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