[Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS

[Greg Boehnlein]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Andrew Thompson wrote:

> > Understand....* boxes are in real live actual production now.  Once you
> > leave the vacuum of the lab, there are going to be things like this that
> > come up.  And many will be for good reasons.  Others will be for
> > crappy, legacy reasons.  Both scenarios are valid in the real world.
> >
> 
> Can someone give me an idea exactly what things are intended to be tested
> via RADIUS, or some other AAA system?
> 
> Are we talking about building SIP/IAX/H323 entries from RADIUS?
> 
> At this point, I'm not really worried about call detail, as that's something
> that * already can dump to a database, it can be adapted to dump back to any
> service. (Unless this is really the primary objective of the whole RADIUS
> discussion.)

For me, it is. Being able to take CDR data (Called Number, Port, Start 
Time, Stop Time, Extension etc...) and dump them to a Radius server means 
I don't have to implement a seperate billing program to charge for 
usage!!!!!

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