>Terminal servers provide the ppp protocol already, and authenticate via >Radius, or Tacacs.
Can the source code for the Terminal Servers be altered? > You're comparing apples and oranges here. pppd is the protocol used to > send TCP/IP over a serial line (encapsulation). Part of its job is > authentication between two sites (using CHAP or PAP). Normally for ISPs, > the authentication is one way -> ISP authenticates the dialup client. > Some implementations of terminal server software in linux (mgetty) > auto-run pppd when it detects ppp frames being sent by the client. Some > other implementations like portslave actually have radius authentication > hacked into the ppp daemon so that if you run portslave on a PC server, > it's as if its a terminal server in itself. > > so, > > pppd -> daemon that implements tcp/ip encapsulation protocol over > serial/dialup lines with built in authentication based on PAP/CHAP. may > come with a hack that uses radius for authentication > > radius -> purely an authentication/accounting protocol, used for > network/isp auth/acctg. > > Are you saying portslave replaces mgetty and pppd? If it does, then maybe portslave should be the package we customize. I need to do something special with packets which is why we chose to customize pppd. Since we were already touching the code, we decided to do the authentication by querying a database directly rather than allowing the ppp daemon to go through pap-secrets or RADIUS for that matter. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
