At 02:36 PM 9/1/95 -0300, Marcelo Lopes Rodrigues wrote:
>
>So why is Cisco starting to use Radius? (Packet magazine, Vol. 7, Number 2
>, Second Quarter 1995, pag. 13)
>
Well, large ISP's like Merit in Michigan are looking to RADIUS as the protocol
of choice for dial-up authentication for a large network. Although you can
get more information on the project from http://www.merit.edu, I can briefly
say that they have over 150 member and affiliate organizations and will have
every Elementary and Secondary school in the state as customers within a year.
(timing logistics more than anything). We're talking millions of users, all
which can dial into PPP based Network Access Servers (NAS -Livingston
Portmasters) and authenticate using RADIUS to UNIX, VMS, NT, and Novell and
have regulated, auditable, authentication using RADIUS encryption, UNIX password
files, Kerberos, or TACACS. Merit is one of several big users who have been
bugging Cisco to adapt the RADIUS protocol as an alternative to Livingston.
Cisco's reaction to that market (Merit hopes to be so successful that many
other large ISP's will use the same scheme and you can authenticate back to
your local authorization server from any NAS nation/world-wide :-) ) and
activity on the RADIUS standard committee may have something to do with it...
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