[Asterisk-Users] Radius on *

[Arslan Saeed]

I agree with Lars Boegild's arguments for RADIUS. Much VoIP Billing
software relies on Radius AAA mechanism. Radius also enables to
seamlessly share existing user base for VoIP network too. Think of an
ISP becoming ITSP... Radius also provides better features for
authentication and authorization policies than asterisk can offer. 

Arslan.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lars Boegild Thomsen [mailto:lth at cow.dk] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 6:07 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Radius on *

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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