Hello, We use RADIUS with a MySQL backend database server for dialup authentication. Because our accounting system is XML based, I would prefer to use one AAA (i.e RADIUS) server to provision and validate our VoIP UA's. LDAP is another AAA solution we are looking at using. Of course a direct SQL connection from * would still work with the backend. Doug
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Jeremy McNamara > > Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 2:19 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS > > > [...] > > > > Explain why you think you really need RADIUS Accounting? > > Why not talk > > right to the database itself and save yourself that unneeded > > complication and points of failure. > > > > I know this has come up before, and in a perfect world, where * was the > primary app, you don't need RADIUS. In enterprise environments where > RADIUS accounting is already embedded into other aspects of the > workflow, it would be beneficial. > > Understand....* boxes are in real live actual production now. Once you > leave the vacuum of the lab, there are going to be things like this that > come up. And many will be for good reasons. Others will be for crappy, > legacy reasons. Both scenarios are valid in the real world. > > Daryl G. Jurbala > BMPC Network Operations > Tel: +1 215 825 8401 x235 > Fax: +1 508 526 8500 > INOC-DBA: 26412*DGJ > > PGP Key: http://www.introspect.net/pgp > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- FREE Unlimited Worldwide Voip calling set-up an account and start saving today! http://www.voippages.com ext. 1003 http://www.pulver.com/fwd/ ext. 83740 _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
