Re: Mulitple POPs

Charles Scott (cscott@freeway.net)
Mon, 23 Dec 1996 06:57:34 -0500 (EST)

William:
I personally don't know of any way to do this unless you use RADIUS. I
do know that the Merit RADIUS will do pass-on authentication. You would
run a copy of RADIUS on each mail server and have a central RADIUS server
or designate one of them as the central server. The users would
authentate using realms. For example, a user at "citya" would
authenticate using something like "user@citya.isp.com". The central
RADIUS server would pass that request on to the appropriate server for
authentication. I don't know how this would relate to other flavors of
RADIUS.

Chuck

On Mon, 23 Dec 1996 william@ns1.v-link.net wrote:

> Good day.
>
>
> We're an ISP and we're setting up a network with multiple dial-up points
> or POPs. The catch is every POP will have its own mail server, so what
> happens is there will be subscribers at different POPs but they can get
> PPP access at any POP they dial into.
>
> Something like this will happen....
>
> City A, City B, City C are 3 POPs, with a.isp.com, b.isp.com and
> c.isp.com as the mail servers.
>
> How can we implement some sort of internal roaming if we are not going
> to use a cenralized authentication server? That is, a.isp.com,
> b.isp.com and c.isp.com will contain the passwords of the users?
>
>
> We appreciate any help. Thanks!
>
>
> William Cabelin
> Technical Operations
> Virtualink Int'l Corp.
>