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anyone knows a good windows Radius and billing solution?

RadiusManager 3

Love it!

We used to use DaloRADIUS and it was crap due to a dead lifecycle.

I heard that it had some life breathed into the project in the last few months, but it doesn't look like anything serious.

really, windows version came out?

reply to voxframe
windows....

reply to ponline
Im still a daloradius user and it does the job but I would like something that can give details easier. And we are an all linux shop.
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reply to ponline
RadiusManager 3 is a pretty good product with decent support. We used it for a bit.

I'm not sure you are going to find much on the Window's platform. Give Linux a try.

reply to ponline
Ahh shit sorry I'm blind and didn't see windows... Must have coffee

reply to ponline
I use RadiusManager for almost 5 years now, i was the first one recomending it here, but i think .... i wanna change. don't ask me for details it might just be temporary wish. The reason would be my limited linux knowledge.

reply to ponline
The only complaint I have with RM3 is the fact that running a yum update will most likely break it. That and it's the first time I've ever "blindly" run a server. All the other machines I run I've basically ripped the programs apart and experimented with them heavily. Whereas RM I just let them do the install and I blindly trust it.

That said though it works flawlessly.

good for you!

reply to ponline
are all of you guys using mikrotik for authentication with RM3?

reply to ponline
Yeppers on our end.

reply to ponline
just found this thread for a windows based radius server

»www.ranjodh.com/networking/setup···sco-asa/

reply to ponline
I really think people should drop their dependency on Windows.

There are plenty of Linux and FreeBSD distributions that provide graphical environments, and are 100%, legitimately, free, with no real fear of being caught out by a random audit of software compliance (unless you happen to use proprietary software on such a system for example).

For example, PC-BSD (based on FreeBSD) just released v9.0, and has 4 graphical environments to chose from. Ubuntu is probably one of the better Linux distributions for user friendliness that Ive come across, with a highly user oriented software installation system. After a while you'll find yourself working mostly with the CLI anyway, and you wont bother with the GUI, at which point you can stop it loading up when the machine boots, and save some RAM and CPU for the system to do its job.

With a little tinkering, and some scripting, theres essentially nothing you cannot do on one of these systems, and wont cost you much more than the time you need to invest in it. Theres a reason beyond the $$$ savings why practically all major ISPs etc use *nix systems for backend stuff...

OK, I realise time isnt something that grows on trees for a lot of you guys, but the long term benefit is definitely there for anyone who is willing to invest. And you dont need a lot of grunt to run it, any old PC will do for a basic system.

I would highly recommend people look into it, even as a side project. Build up a familiarity over time, then start ... tinkering. You'll possibly wonder why you never got into it earlier.

These days I struggle to find a reason to need to do anything on Windows. Only edge cases ever make me think of needing it.

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reply to ponline
A local WISP uses »www.ispbilling.com/ and seems to work fairly well.

reply to ponline
Platypus a solution that was first written to support dialups... Mature, very functional, and absolutely worth the price...