[Asterisk-Users] Radius on *

[James Sizemore]

Amen

Lars Boegild Thomsen wrote:

>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.
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>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.
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