Re: (PM) Radius (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Thu, 6 Nov 1997 14:20:13 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Jacob Suter shaped the electrons to say...
>But still, radius is supposed to be a security system right? The BBS

Right - and not a resource allocation protocol.

There is also a BIG difference between single point restriction and
distributed restrictions.

Several RADIUS servers claim to do it, there is *one* that I know of that
really does it properly. I believe Cistron uses an SNMP backchannel to
check and eliminate the race conditions inherent in RADIUS. Any system
relying solely on RADIUS packets is fundamentally flawed.

-MZ

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