On 21 Dec 96 at 9:40, Roy wrote:
> One thing that could be done is to pass the Caller-ID information to
> Radius. That would allow you do all sorts of things based on the
> incoming phone number
>
You didn't get it. If you use the normal authentication scheme, you need
the information passed over an established ISDN connection over the B
channel.
The trick is to use the SETUP information passed over the *D* channel.
The SETUP packet includes information like caller ID and called ID. The
PM should interpret these information and pass it to RADIUS *before* a B
channel is established. Therefore, there will be no charges for the
caller if for example callback is desired.
I passed this mechanism as RFE to Livingston half a year ago. This is an
essential and basic feature of all *real* ISDN access routers. It's a
shame that no product at all developed by "big" (US) companies like
Cisco, Ascend, Shiva, Livingston, USRobotics,... is able to use the
features ISDN D channel signalling provides!
Have a look at *real* ISDN products from BinTec, NetCS and others. I know
that Europe is some steps ahead regarding ISDN. But how comes that US
companies like Livingston, who want to have a market share in Europe,
don't support real ISDN features?
(1) digital leased line support (OK, Ascend and Cisco do)
(2) MSN support (multibus configurations, well, Ciscos do partially)
(3) CLI over the D channel (--> no charge)
(4) Callback on CLI (see above)
(5) async. protocols like X.75
Please think about that.
best regards,
Frank
> > > >
> > > > Another cool feature (which may already exist) would be to allow call-back
> > > > to the (varying) caller ID number, in addition to the fixed call-back
> > > > number. I guess this would be more of a RADIUS server feature?
> > >
> > > What I could /really/ use is the ability for the PM3 to grab the
> > > caller-ID info, check a list of local prefixes, and only answer
> > > if it's a local call. If the caller-ID info is non-local, a
> > > call-back could be initiated (checks a list of allowed call-back
> > > prefixes).
> >
>
>
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