Re: (PM) authentication between isps

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Tue, 4 Nov 1997 09:31:58 -0600 (CST)

On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Skeeve Stevens wrote:

>
>
> ok.. this is an idea ive been thinking about and now an isp i work for wants
> to do it.
>
> say there are 2 isps, each one is on the other side of the country, or as in
> our case, a different country.
>
> both use livingstons, and both use radius authentication.
>
> what we want to do is have their users able to dial into us, and if a user
> isnt in our database, they would authenticate fro their radius.

NFS mount the machine with the radius database.

>
> and the reverse as well.
>
> how would one go about this 'peering authentication' or whatever the best term
> is for it.
>
> another idea would be a lot of little isps all sharing a distributed radius
> database which couldbe accesses from a single point...
>
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