(RADIATOR) Platypus 3.0 & Radiator questions.

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Robert -

As I can't find you in my customer database, could you please send me the 
name of the company that is registered as having purchased this copy of 
Radiator?

Please reply to me directly.

regards

Hugh

On Thursday 31 May 2001 02:53, Robert G. Fisher wrote:
> I'm working on setting up Radiator 1.18.1 to authenticate
> from a Platypus 3.0 system.  I've installed the db script
> from Boardtown to bring in the RadiusNT objects and used
> their sample configuration file which uses the EMERALD
> AuthBy module.
>
> Currently I'm using Cistron, and this is a big switch because
> the PHBs would like to have this integrate with the NT systems.
>
> The issues that I'm trying to understand how I can implement
> are as follows:
>
> 1)  While the DB stores a field for AccountType such as
>     'PPP', 'SLIP', 'ISDN', etc -- this is only checked
>     against the DNISGroups.  What I'd prefer to do is
>     to have this check against NAS-Port-Type.
>
>     Currently, instead of requiring a check item of
>     NAS-Port-Type=Async, I use fall throughs to allow
>     for users to pass the NAS-Port-Type checks, then
>     I list a series of checks for values of Sync (ascend foo),
>     ISDN, ISDN-V110, and ISDN-V120 to return an Auth-Type
>     Reject.
>
>     I'd prefer to not have to write a new module to handle
>     this one issue, so I was wondering if anyone had figured
>     out how to do this either via a change of the AuthSelect
>     statement or via a hook -- though I don't know how I'd
>     pass values from the db query to the hook.
>
> 2)  Both the Emerald and Platypus modules state that Platypus
>     sticks Simultaneous-Use to 1 -- however, with the current
>     db changes out there, there is a field for maxsession for
>     each account that, while it defaults to 1, can be any int
>     value -- is the warning in the module simply out dated?
>
> 3)  I'm used to using snmpget and finger for radcheck from
>     Cistron on a Linux box, but will be running Radiator on
>     NT and W2K machines due to ODBC support -- does anyone
>     know of a SNMP suite and finger utility that will work
>     on NT as a replacement?
>
> 4)  The RadiusNT window in Platypus doesn't allow me to specify
>     the response items based on the type of NAS, could anyone
>     show me an example of how to do this -- for instance, I'd
>     really like to have a way to return the avpairs of
>     Session-Timeout, Idle-Timeout, and Port-Limit to our non
>     Ascend equipment, and then Ascend-Maximum-Time,
>     Ascend-Idle-Limit, and Ascend-Maximum-Channels.  Could this
>     be done with an extension of AuthSelect to match up the
>     NASType field from the server tables and then to add values,
>     or what'd be real nifty to match up Ascend entries and then
>     convert any of the above av pairs to the Ascend versions.
>
> 5)  Also, I'd like to use Simultaenous-Use checks, but only on
>     specific NAS boxes -- or at least, to be able to exclude
>     servers of a particular type -- which would mean the roaming
>     or proxy clients listed in my servers table as I'd have no
>     way to verify if a connection entry was valid or invalid.

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