Rizzo,
My mistake. sorry about that. In a Cisco-centric environment, TACACS+
is definitely THE choice. I also agree is much easier to configure than
RADIUS.
Sean
>From: Rizzo Damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Rizzo Damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "'Sean Young'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rizzo Damian
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: Freeware Tacacs+ and RADIUS?
>Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 13:59:41 -0500
>
>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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