(RADIATOR) Mac OS X Questions

[Patrick Muldoon(NOC)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-radiator at open.com.au [mailto:owner-radiator at open.com.au]
On
> Behalf Of Marcel Brown
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 10:33 PM
> To: radiator at open.com.au
> Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) Mac OS X Questions
> 
> A few more questions regarding Mac OS X and MS SQL access
> 
> If connecting to MS SQL from ODBC on UNIX requires an ODBC driver,
> where can I get a driver? Do people here have experience with this on
> Mac OS X?
> 
> I keep reading that DBD-Sybase is compatible with MS-SQL. If I were
> to use DBD-Sybase instead of DBD-ODBC, do I still need an additional
> driver? Anyone here have experience using DBD-Sybase for MS SQL with
> any UNIX, not just Mac OS X?


we have been using freetds (http://www.freetds.org/)  with dbd-sybase on
FreeBSD with no trouble for a while now.

--
Patrick Muldoon, Network/Software Engineer
INOC, LLC
doon at inoc.net

'Life is like a spoonful of Drain-O, it feels good on the way down but
leaves you feeling hollow inside'


> 
> Thanks!
> Marcel
> 
> 
> >Hello Marcel -
> >
> >You are correct - it will require an ODBC driver.
> >
> >BTW - an alternative is to run an instance of Radiator on the MS
> >host to which you proxy radius requests from Radiator on your other
> >platform. The instance of Radiator on the MS host can then just do
> >local ODBC.
> >
> >regards
> >
> >Hugh
> >
> >
> >On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 01:48 PM, Marcel Brown wrote:
> >
> >>>I haven't tried the ODBC support yet, but if the Perl DBD-ODBC
> >>>module will talk to it, it should work. I have just had a quick
> >>>look at the ODBC Administrator application, and it looks like it
> >>>should do the job nicely. I will do some testing and let you know.
> >>>BTW - if this works well, it will be a *big* win.
> >>
> >>From the little bit of research I did, it appears that we'll need
> >>an ODBC driver in addition to the ODBC manager. Not being a
> >>full-fledged database geek, I'm not quite sure of all the
> >>alphabet-soup technology needed here, but I'm trying to get up to
> >>speed.
> >>
> >>Thanks!
> >>Marcel
> >>
> >
> >NB: I am travelling this week, so there may be delays in our
> correspondence.
> >
> >--
> >Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server
> >anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows 95/98/2000, NT, MacOS X.
> >-
> >Nets: internetwork inventory and management - graphical, extensible,
> >flexible with hardware, software, platform and database independence.
> 
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