AW: (ASCEND) Remote Radius For Port Wholesaling

[Jürgen Waibel <waibel@farside.net>]

Hi,

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Phillip Vandry [mailto:vandry@Mlink.NET]
> Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 30. Juni 1999 00:59
> An: Rich Hervig
> Cc: ascend-users@bungi.com
> Betreff: Re: (ASCEND) Remote Radius For Port Wholesaling 
> 
> > Can anyone tell me the best way to configure external-auth on a TNT
> > when you want to sell ports off your TNT to another ISP? It would be
> > cool to not have to use prefixes or suffixes in the login names.
> > If they had a BOB with password BOB and so did we how would 
> that work?
> > I want to send calls from certain ports to a remote radius server.
> > Just get me started , I really appreciate it.
> 
> You've already mentioned a couple of strategies. Let me 
> summarize them:
> 
> 1. Prefixes/suffixes/identifying marks in the username
> 
> 2. Separate ports on the box
> 
> 3. Seperate phone numbers, but the same physical ports.
> 
> I recommend the last one, although if you want to hardcode 
> who gets how
> many ports (ISP A gets 5 T1's, ISP B gets 3), then the second is good
> too.
> 
> In all cases, I think the best aproach is to have a master 
> RADIUS server
> that accepts all requests from the NAS, and decides which ISP 
> it belongs
> to based on whatever the criteria are (username for the 
> first, slot & port
> number for the second, DNIS/Called number for the third), and resends
> the packets to the paropriate RADIUS server belonging to the ISP.
> 
> This is a proxy RADIUS server.
> 
> I'm not sure exactly which RADIUS servers can do this, but I 
> know some can.
> 
We are using radiator to solve this problem. See
http://www.open.com.au/radiator for details.

Kind regards

Juergen Waibel
Farside Communications
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