There is a big difference between "powerful" and "more widely used". I'll
give you that if your using a device other then Cisco, you may be best to go
the RADIUS way. However, anyone who has any experience with TACACS+ and
RADIUS, specifically with Cisco devices, will tell you that TACACS+ is the
much preferable choice. Not just because Cisco "says", but because of all
the reasons I mentioned earlier and more.
-Rizzo
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 1:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Freeware Tacacs+ and RADIUS?
Rizzo,
I will grant you that TACACS+ is versatile robust than RADIUS but only
if you NAS of equipments are Cisco products. If you are using products
from vendors other than Cisco, chances are RADIUS is the prefer choice.
RADIUS and TACACS+ are both open-source so anyone can take the code and
tweak them so that improvement can always be made. Go to freeradius.org
and you will know what I am talking about.
If you say that TACACS+ is more robust, versatile and far more "powerful"
than RADIUS, where do get that from? Do you have any bench-mark to back
it up or do you hear it from "somewhere (presumably) cisco". I am not
saying RADIUS is better. I am just saying that RADIUS is more powerful
because it is widely used and there more developers support RADIUS than
TACACS+.
Sean
>From: Rizzo Damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Rizzo Damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: Freeware Tacacs+ and RADIUS?
>Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:41:43 -0500
>
>I'd like to make a comment regarding "Radius is more powerful"...In
>actuality TACACS+ is Much more robust and versatile then RADIUS. From
>encrypting the entire datagram, to using TCP, to being able to split
>Authentication, Authorization and Accounting services, to setting privilege
>exec levels, TACACS+ is far more "powerful" then RADIUS.
>
>
>
> -Rizzo
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sean Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 12:21 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Freeware Tacacs+ and RADIUS?
>
>
>
>Mr. Cheapskate,
>
>TACACS and RADIUS have always been free. Go to these sites:
>
>http://www.gazi.edu.tr/tacacs/
>http://www.freeradius.org
>
>TACACS is esasy to setup and configure. RADIUS is more powerful,
>open-standard but a little more difficult to set up. F___ those bastards
>at
>Cisco. They provide you with a lot of documentation on how to setup
>TACACS but very little on how to set up RADIUS to communicate with your
>NAS
>
>
>
> >From: "John Neiberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: "John Neiberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Freeware Tacacs+ and RADIUS?
> >Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:44:42 -0700
> >
> >Are there such creatures? I'd like to play around with this stuff in my
> >home lab and don't feel like shelling out hundreds of dollars for
> >software just to play with it once in a while. I found some older
> >freeware TACACS software, but I'd like to play with TACACS+ and RADIUS.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >John the Cheapskate
> >
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