Re: RADIUS Implementations
Jeffrey C. Ollie (jeffo@worf.netins.net)
Tue, 17 Oct 1995 17:29:35 -0500
>>>>> "W" == William Bulley <web@merit.edu> writes:
W>
W> According to Victor Muslin:
>>
>> Being new to Radius, I noticed through following various discussions
>> on this list and others that there appears to be two popular
>> implementations, one from Livingston (1.16) and one from Merit
>> (2.4). Are there any others? Does anyone have a C++ implementation?
>> Also having examined Livingston's implementation -- Merit's is much
>> more extensive and I haven't braved it yet -- it appeared that the
>> code could benefit from using Lex/Yacc. Has anyone done that?
W>
W> Lex?!?! Yacc?!?! Am I missing something, here?
IMHO, no. The syntax for the configuration files is simple enough
that using Lex and Yacc is overkill. From all indications that I have
seen, custom parsing code for simple grammars is smaller, faster, and
easier to understand.
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Jeffrey C. Ollie
Iowa Network Services System Administrator