[Asterisk-Dev] H.323 Gateway/Gatekeeper - Radius AAA

[Michael Baird]

Hmm, can asterisk use radius? or ldap? or some other realtime external 
database for the call rules? That would be wonderful, although I didn't 
think that was a possibility.

Regards
MIKE

>Hi
>
>We supply Broadband and therefore use Radius already.  Most of the billing
>software seams to have some mention of radius somewhere.  I am currently
>looking to make a H.323/SIP gateway with Asterisk, get the billing side
>working and then add PSTN access.  I will have a look at Trabas, but still
>at the stage of just installing every thing.
>
>Regards
>Lee
>
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Patrick" <idefix at puzzled.xs4all.nl>
>To: <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
>Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:45 AM
>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] H.323 Gateway/Gatekeeper - Radius AAA
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>>Hi Jeremy,
>>
>>You have been saying that Radius for billing purposes sucks on #asterisk
>>and now here. Surprisingly if you google around for billing solutions
>>you will find many software solutions that use Radius. Back in 2001 I
>>worked on the billing system at WorldCom and UUNet which generates
>>billions of CDRs a month. It used Kenan *and* Radius. The only GPL'ed
>>billing software I could find was Trabas which you said sucked also.
>>
>>It would be way more useful to people if you could explain *why* in your
>>opinion Radius is not suitable for billing purposes. And while you are
>>at it, please take a minute to share what you think is the right
>>approach to a billing solution for Asterisk. After all, you have already
>>integrated a billing solution into Asterisk that afaik you can not share
>>due to resistance of the "suits".
>>
>>Didn't someone say resistance was futile? :)
>>
>>Regards,
>>Patrick
>>
>>On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 08:04, Jeremy McNamara wrote:
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>>>I seriously hope you didn't waste your time implementing a RADIUS hack
>>>into Asterisk.   It is absolutely, positively not necessary.
>>>
>>>
>>>Jeremy McNamara
>>>
>>>
>>>Lubomir Christov wrote:
>>>
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>>>
>>>>Hello,
>>>>
>>>>we are ready with a Radius channel for asterisk. It can do Radius
>>>>authentication and accounting. I think that next week we will send it
>>>>to Mark and soon it will be available :)
>>>>
>>>>Best regards
>>>>
>>>>Lubomir Christov
>>>>
>>>>Lee Norvall wrote:
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>>Hi All
>>>>>
>>>>>Just wanted to know if anyone has setup or made possible the
>>>>>          
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>following:
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>>>>>H.323 Gateway/Gatekeeper?
>>>>>AAA RADIUS
>>>>>Integration with *SQL
>>>>>
>>>>>Regards
>>>>>Lee Norvall
>>>>>          
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