(RADIATOR) Fwd: Christmas Present
Hugh Irvine
hugh at open.com.au
Tue Dec 27 15:41:44 CST 2005
Hello Everyone -
Fred Leeflang has kindly permitted me to post the following email to
the Radiator mailing list in the expectation that some of you may
find the software useful in conjunction with Radiator.
regards
Hugh
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Fred Leeflang <fredl at 3dn.nl>
> Date: 27 December 2005 08:28:39 GMT+11:00
> To: Discussielijst voor het onderdeel usertracking van SURFworks
> Dienstontwikkeling <USERTRACKING at NIC.SURFNET.NL>, René Hennequin
> <rene at hennequin.nl>, G Scharloo <g.scharloo at hva.nl>, Guus Pfau
> <G.E.Pfau at ict.hva.nl>, "A. Janssen" <a.janssen at ict.hva.nl>,
> rainman at rainman.ath.cx, Steyn.Huizinga at hva.nl,
> F.Q.C.Roeling at dto.tudelft.nl, S.J.G.Smit at utwente.nl,
> C.P.M.Booms at dto.tudelft.nl, jochemd at oli.tudelft.nl,
> hugh at open.com.au, poepping at cmu.edu, cmisra at nic.umass.edu,
> kevinm at gmail.com, ghb at internet2.edu, chas at cmu.edu, mikem at open.com.au
> Subject: Christmas Present
>
> Ladies & Gentlemen,
>
> UserTracking is a tool that allows network administrators
> to make a link between 802.1x layer 2 authentication and
> layer 3 IP addresses.
>
> I have just tagged usertracking on sourceforge as release-1-0.
> To those of you who have no clue what I'm talking about,
> let me explain why you are in the address list of this email.
>
> This is not an automated email, nor is it intended to be unsollicited,
> if however you feel offended by this email in any way, please
> accept my apologies.
>
> Usertracking used to be called TNT, for 'Tracking and Tracing',
> a tool which was initiated quite some time ago when I still
> worked for a school as a fulltime employee. SURFnet has
> sponsored this project from the beginning and I am very
> pleased and proud to say they still do, even though I got
> very busy while setting up my own company and didn't have
> much time to extend UserTracking's functionality.
>
> All of you have in the past been involved in this in a big way
> (like the people on the discussielijst) or in a lesser way, or in
> a very very brief encounter (Hugh and Mike from that cool Radius
> server 'Radiator').
>
> Some of you have merely given some comments on the Internet2
> list, with some of the internet2 related people I've been on a few
> conference calls.
>
> I thank you all, your feedback in the far or not so far past have
> all in some way contributed to now finally being able to release
> version 1.0 of usertracking.
>
> There's no 'released' tar file yet, no RPM's, no .deb's or a very
> polished and smooth install. Just a 'tag', and I'd like to keep it
> that
> way for now. However, everything seems to be working
> fairly stable now as some institutes here in the Netherlands have
> helped polishing the software.
>
> Here are some of the features of UserTracking 1.0:
> =================================
>
> - A distributed architecture which maintains a statefull
> database of IP/MAC couplings in a MySQL database.
> - A web coupling with Radiator, the popular Radius server
> from Open System Consultants which includes web based
> administration to some extent of Radiator as well as
> automated restart of the radiator server when neccesary.
> - A web coupling with Radiator's client database and 'online'
> functionality.
> - DHCP logfile parsing to do a first relatively reliable MAC/IP
> coupling.
> - SNMP polling of central network elements to make a more
> reliable MAC/IP coupling
> - ARP sniffing to make an even more reliable MAC/IP coupling
> - A full fledged authorization mechanism that allows administrators
> to delegate responsibilities like Radius client administration,
> user administration, configuration administration and more.
> - A modular plugin concept for reporting on the data contained
> in UT's database.
> - Fully database driven context sensitive help.
> - Database driven configuration of all helper processes, which
> may be running on remote machines.
>
> I invite you all to check out the usertracking release-1-0 tag
> from the sourceforge repository. Follow the instructions on
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/usertracking itself to do so.
>
> An online demo is also available at http://usertracking.surfnet.nl
>
> You will be asked for a username/password, use admin/guess
> as username/password. You will then have full permissions to
> test this install. However, there is not a lot of 'live' data in this
> demo as the server is in a pretty isolated LAN and there's no
> live Radius authentication on that server. Please keep this in
> mind, as some functionality of UT will not be available because
> of this (also not the main functionality, searching through the
> MAC/IP couplings)
>
>
> Please note that many pages by now have their own context
> sensitive help screen. If you feel lost, these may come in handy.
>
> I hope you will enjoy usertracking and if you have any questions,
> I look forward to answering them.
>
> Regards and Merry Christmas,
> Fred Leeflang
>
>
> --
> Fred Leeflang 3DN
> Tel. 06-46182773 / 036-8444849 Almere
> http://www.3dn.nl fredl at 3dn.nl
>
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