PLEASE forward any changes you've made to improve the USR problem with
Emerald.
Thanks a TON.
Tom
tom@tdi.net
At 12:23 AM 5/1/97 -0500, you wrote:
> USR has once again decided to go their own way, leaving thousands of ISP's
> without Total Solution. Despite USR claims of supporting Industry
>standards, today senior engineers formally announced that USR does not
>support or comply to RFC proposals on adopting RADIUS.
>
> This came as quite a shock after purchasing (6) Total Control Chassis with
>x2 support. After their constant claims that 'Emerald was non-RFC
>compliant and I should use USR's Accounting server', and it is 'Emerald's
>support of Ascend that is the problem' today they announced: "USR has
>chosen not to support the present RFC for RADIUS accounting."
>
> After my disclosure of carring this to the ISP list here is their NOW
>official response:
>
> There are incompatibility issues with our Netserver working in
> conjunction with Emerald's Security/Accounting Software. The reason
> being is that the Netserver is sending some vendor specific attributes
> that Emerald's Security/Accounting doesn't recognize.
>
> Thanks to the assistance of Dale I can say the problem is rather easy to
>fix. Therefore, any ISP's that choose to use USR Total Control Chassis,
>and want to use a fully intergrated accounting/billing/authentication
>system (and yes Dale it does more than that). Rather than listen to the
>comments from USR, simply make the changes that I am sure Dale will post to
>these list.
>
> The purpose of this message is to let everyone know that Emerald/RadiusNT
>can support USR.
>