[Asterisk-Users] Radius on *

[Lars Boegild Thomsen]

I won't agree that RADIUS shouldn't ever have been deployed in a VoIP
environment.  While it can be argued that RADIUS is not in any way an ideal
solution and it can also be argued if it is necessary in a PBX software such
as Asterisk, fact is that many IP service providers already have advanced
billing systems based on RADIUS in place.

As I see it RADIUS does not add another layer of complexity - but instead
another layer of abstraction.  If Asterisk could do authentication and
accounting using RADIUS it wouldn't need to bother with different RDBMS's
and the whole discussion of PostgreSQL versus MySQL would be void :)
Freeradius easily support MS-SQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, PostgreSQL etc.
etc. without any problems whatsoever, so it would significantly simplify
things if Asterisk had a smart RADIUS module.  Actually even the
provisioning of dial-plans could be done through RADIUS, which would make
mass-deployment of Asterisk boxes a lot simpler to administrate.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Jeremy
> McNamara
> Sent: 18 November 2003 05:33
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Radius on *
>
>
> Sebastian Nocetti wrote:
>
> >Does Asterisk support Radius accounting?....
> >
> >
>
> No and there is absolutely no need for it to.   RADIUS is not anything
> that should have ever been deployed in a VoIP environment.
>
> There are many methods to talk directly to a database, why add another
> layer of complexity and point of failure?
>
>
> Jeremy McNamara
>
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