Re: Merit Radius and Portmaster

William Bulley (web@merit.edu)
Thu, 16 Nov 1995 08:04:08 -0500 (EST)

According to David Carmean:
>
> If you use PAP with PPP, then you don't have to do anything
> special. The portmaster sees the PPP frames on it's port, sends a
> request to RADIUS with the Service-Type attribute set to Framed, and Merit
> RADIUS picks that up and runs with it. It has three "default" profiles
> for determining how to start the session: dumbuser (Telnet), pppuser,
> and slipuser. So, you can use the same username and password for a
> regular dialup or PPP session.

Correct.

> SLIP, I don't know about yet...with the stock Merit distribution,
> you'd have to have an explicit entry in the users file for the SLIP
> users, but I haven't seen a SLIP user on my system since we started
> four months ago, and I now have 850 users.

The PortMaster Users manual I have (January 1994 edition) has mention
of the built-in ppp and slip "hosts" when you select the "host:" prompt
first. I've posted the page number here in the past, but I don't have
my manual near me right now... Look at the "set <port> host prompt"
command description...

> If you can't use PAP...there is reportedly a patch to the
> Merit package that uses a "service%user" format, but I don't know where
> to get it. I hope to create a patch that handles at least four different
> forms of this trick, but I don't have the time right now.

I think I have that, but have yet to incorporate it into a Merit release...

Regards,

web...

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