Re: [RadiusNT] GRIC / IPASS Roaming?

Dale E. Reed Jr. ( (no email) )
Sun, 13 Dec 1998 23:34:24 -0800

Christian Schmit wrote:
>
> Your 2nd solution seems very interesting. Anyone out there
> running a setup like this?

We have setup several of our customers this way.

> If I understand well in this setup radiusnt would simply pass all unknown
> requests to the roaming server (either ipass or gric) which will return his
> answer back to radiunsnt which will again return the answer to the
> NAS. right?

Yes. #2 has the advantage that you don't introduce a proxy server for
your local authentications, which should be most of the auths (making
it faster).

> Christian
>
> At 11:07 PM 12/12/98 -0800, you wrote:
> >Christian Schmit wrote:
> >>
> >> We currently run radiusnt 2.5 with SQL server 6.5 for
> >> 2 years now and are quite satisfied with it.
> >>
> >> We need to implement roaming services to our dial-up
> >> services in very near future. I looked around and found
> >> GRIC and IPASS the most interesting partners for doing
> >> this.
> >>
> >> Is anyone using GRIC or IPASS with radiusnt/SQL 6.5?
> >> Any recommendations?
> >
> >I've used both w/out a problem.
> >
> >> Is radiusnt compatible with the technologies offered
> >> from IPASS or GIRC?
> >
> >You can setup support for them in one of two ways:
> >
> >1) You install the RADIUS proxy server software supplied by the roaming
> > service (typically a Merit modified daemon) that you run between your
> > terminal servers and RadiusNT. The modified proxy server passes all
> > non-roaming requests to RadiusNT. This option doesn't require many
> > changes, but puts another software package in control of your
> > authentication.
> >
> >2) If you have an Emerald/RadiusNT license, you can configure RadiusNT
> > to pass all unknown proxy requests to the roaming server (which can
> > run on the same machine or another one). The advantage of this is
> > that you have full control over what is going on, and are not
> > dependant on yet another software package in the chain of your users
> > getting on.

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