Talk:RADIUS
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"RADIUS" is not a name of software. "RADIUS" is a name of protocol defined by RFC 2865 and 2866.--Sgk 11:18, Apr 13, 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] What is RADIUS?
I don't clearly understand what Radius is. What is the advantage of RADIUS compared to the usual thing? Actually, what IS the usual thing. My wlan dsl router has RADIUS functionality - what does that mean? Will it be used on the connection router - ISP or on the connection homecomputer - router. thank you, --Abdull 18:36, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I would like to see a comparison of Radius and Kerberos in the article. I don't get why there are two of them? 195.70.32.136 13:08, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] What is RADIUS? Answer
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RADIUS is the common internet protocol to do authentication and accounting and use for: DSL, VOIP, Dial-up, Hotspots/Wifi, WiMAX, GPRS/UMTS in Mobile. It is a centralized server for all internet networks.
Maybe an example would help. If you have a server on a LAN and a remote access server (modem pool) that you can dial into; software running on the server supporting the radius protocol would allow you to use your server login account information when negotiating across PPP.
The alternative is that the remote access server would have a seperate list of PPP authorized users.
Radius allows you to maintain a single list of accounts for multiple such devices. A worthy goal.
In this example both the server and the remote access server would need to "speak" radius of course. Ijeffsc 07:15, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- This is from the radius article
- RADIUS uses UDP ports 1812 or 1645 for Authentication and 1813 or 1646 for Accounting. For example, Microsoft RADIUS servers default to the higher ports but Cisco devices default to the lower ports. Funk software's RADIUS servers also defaults to the lower ports.
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- Now, does anyone get the impression that radius don't do authorization from above two statements, Ijeffsc's and above two lines. On the other hard, this is what I see from searching services running on a fedora box
- radius-dynauth 3799/tcp # RADIUS Dynamic Authorization
- radius-dynauth 3799/udp # RADIUS Dynamic Authorization
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- Personally, I am not sure radius do authorization. I have been looking at a way of doing it with radiator without success. They seem to advice to run tacacs+ within radius, a really wierld setup.
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- Actually, Radius does do authorization. Its just that authorization information are carried by the same packet that does authentication, ie authorization use the same packet as authentication —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.128.166.251 (talk) 07:59, 23 January 2007 (UTC).
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[edit] External links
I've removed most of the external links, as they're just links to individual software packages. sjorford →•← 15:35, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
...and again. And I will continue to keep removing all these unecessary external links until and unless someone can convince me otherwise on the talk page. Edit summaries like "do not edit" just don't cut it, I'm afraid. sjorford →•← 21:33, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Importance of External links - Now it is RADIUS Servers
The extenal links were there for ages...It is important to link the best RADIUS servers on the market, example IAS for Microsoft, FreeRADIUS and other. This is important due to the fact that when you search Google about 'radius server' this page is in a high position and shold list/talk about RADIUS solutions.
Change the name to Radius Servers.
- Why is it important? Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. That means we have an article explaining what RADIUS is, how it works with other technologies and so on. But we're not a shopping catalogue or a review of individual products. The high Google ranking for the page shouldn't affect the content at all.
- I've no objection to external links, but they have to add something that enhances the encyclopedia article. I've left one link in because it has extra information in about radius servers in general, but the other links don't have that as far as I can see, they just act as advertising. sjorford →•← 08:43, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Proposal
Instead of fighting, why don't we put the list of RADIUS software on a separate page, like List_of_GIS_software ? Then both can be happy. bluezy
[edit] List of RADIUS software
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[edit] IP Protocol table
Why is there a table of IP protocols on the right hand part of this article? What does a list of IP Protocols have to do with RADIUS?
