When i say it doesnt do Accounting, I mean it in the sense, that he's
looking for a solution that does everything(billing, etc)

Yes Free Radius will work fine, as I am using it, but without the means
for a billing backend, he wont be able to do what he wants.  Maybe I am
wrong, but it sounds like he wants a turn key solution for a hotspot
solution.

If all he wants is the RADIUS function, freeradius rocks and is simple.

I have had a lot of people ask me how to log into RADIUS and see who's
connected.  This doesnt make sense to me as RADIUS isnt a management
console or something like that.  It merely is the process in which a
server asks a yes or no question( ex:  m0n0 asks radius if "1" is
allowed.  RADIUS checks "1" in DB and acknoledges to m0n0 if "yes" or "no"

You know what I am saying, I didnt have to explain that I guess.  My
apologies.  Just a frustration with peoples misconseption of RADIUS as a
billing system.


Jonathan De Graeve wrote:
>> Radius doesnt do accounting and what not. 
> Since when doesn't radius do accounting?????
> 
>> Its a means of authentication.
> For one...
>> Billing software is more of what you are looking for. 
> It could be
> 
>> Also low or no
>> cost is going to mean non flashy and unfinished.  The open source
>> software solutions that are incorporated with RADIUS all need quite a
>> bit of work to become worthy of being used. 
> If you mean the management: yes, but I think his main question is the
> radius server software itself
>> Security is going to be
>> your biggest concern.
>>
>> I have created a Billing System that has a RADIUS module and uses free
>> Radius.  It however is not free or low cost.
>>
>> Good luck and I hope this may help in your venture which seems to be
>> setting up PAY hotspots.
>>
>> Chris
> Freeradius is one of the most used radius servers on the net (top3, if
> it isn't already  number 1) and can do what john asks for.
> 
> J.
> 
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