Aug 01 2007
Many people using Radius for accounting don’t know there are counters limits. Values defined in the protocol are stored in 32 bit fields meaning you will never go any higher than 4294967296 bits, that is fairly more than 4GB. If a session stays up for days, there are good chances that the counter resets to [...]
Jun 11 2007
This is related to Freeradius software but can be applied to any application that needs to encrypt Mysql traffic. Freeradius is compliant to Radius protocol characteristics, which give ability to accomplish various actions, such as authenticate users. Number of caveats have been found, not related to the software but to the protocol. Joshua Hill from [...]
May 07 2007
We are not trying to build a full comparative of Mysql and Postgresql in this article. This subject has been discussed many times et everyone has his own opinion on this. Some directions may be given and only a few critirias will be analysed to be used with Freeradius. Criterias If we check what’s already [...]