Hi,
I am interested in receiving the modus operandi for imlpementing TACAC+ on
a Linux box.
Thanks
""Sean Young"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am researching on information TACACS server running on Linux platform.
> Currently my company is running several TACACS servers on a Sun Solaris
> 8 platforms. As you can imagine, the support cost is very expensive
> in regarding to both hardware, software and technical services. These
> Sun boxes don't do anything other running TACACS server and SSH (for
> management purpose). It also costs a lot of money to pay our Solaris
> Administrator contractors just to maintain these boxes. As a Cisco
> Engineer with background in Linux, I have been asked by management to
> explore way to migrate these TACACS server from Sun Solaris platform
> to Linux platform. I am looking for information on TACACS server
> performance on Linux (RedHat 7) platform in comparison to Solaris 8
> platform. I have been testing TACACS server on Linux in the lab (I
> am running Linux on a PIII processor with 128MB RAM which I think
> is an overkill for Linux) and I find it very stable and I think I am
> going recommend to my company management to migrate TACACS server over
> to linux platform. However, before doing so, I would like to hear
> from Cisco experts out there about any potential side-effects of going
> away from Sun. I am not a Solaris expert, only in Linux and NetBSD.
> If I can migrate TACACS server to Linux platform, that will save the
> company a lot of money. Furthermore, I will be managing the TACACS
> server thus eliminating the need of Solaris Consultants.
>
> Many thanks.
> Sean,
> P.S. My company is using TACACS to control Authentication, Authorization
> and Accounting (AAA) for about 200 users. We have about 500 Cisco devices
> on our network. Furthermore, anyone who are interested in
> installing and configuring TACACS server and NAS, let me know so that
> I can send you the instruction. It is not as difficult as you might
> think.
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