RE: [SLUG] RADIUS SERVER FOR A DIAL-IN

["Adrian" <adrian@nospam.teviot.net>]

Thank you all for replying.

The situation is,  I have a BPC account coming in to my place and
occasionally I go to a friends place or while I am working that doesn't have
net access.

What I want to do rather than signing up for another internet account with
BigPond or somebody else (Can't afford to pay any more for net access), is
to dial-in to my own server and access the internet via that.

I have with a bit of help been able to dial-in to my server, but only
getting shell access.

Would I be better to swap to RADIUS and PORTSLAVE or try to get PPP access
on the now existing dial-in service.

Please remember that I am still an infant with regards to Linux(Redhat
v6.2), so please be patient and give details on how to make changes.
Explanation as to why things are done a particular way would also be good.

Thanks
Adrian

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-slug@nospam.newtreno.spectrum.com.au
> [mailto:owner-slug@nospam.newtreno.spectrum.com.au]On Behalf Of Anthony Wood
> Sent: Thursday, 8 June 2000 10:40
> To: slug@nospam.slug.org.au; Adrian
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] RADIUS SERVER FOR A DIAL-IN using
> "radius_2.0.1_Linux_2.0.tar.Z"
>
>
>
> If you do want RADIUS (because you can, or because you want to
> learn about it) you probably want
> portslave too.  This makes your linux box act as a modem dial-in
> box.  This will contact your
> RADIUS server for credentials.  The RADIUS server I recommend is
> cistron radiusd (linked from
> http://www.freeradius.org/).  Freeradius is an alpha release
> update on cistron.
>
> If you really want livingston radius, you will have to do:
>
> uncompress radius_2.0.1_Linux_2.0.tar.Z
> tar xvf radius_2.0.1_Linux_2.0.tar
> cd radius_2.01._Linux_2.0
> ls
>
> then you should read any files called readme, install, the whole
> doc directory.
>
> if you want to find out about the commands you're typing: type
> man <command>  e.g. man uncompress
> which will give you heaps of information about what the commands do.
>
> Of course if you just want to dial into your box, then mgetty is
> what you want though.
>
> Woody
>
>
> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 13:01:56 +1000
> From: Alexander Else <coram@nospam.cyberchrist.org>
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] RADIUS SERVER FOR A DIAL-IN using
> "radius_2.0.1_Linux_2.0.tar.Z"
>
> At 07:04 AM 6/7/00 +1000, Adrian wrote:
> >I need to know how to extract and install
> "radius_2.0.1_Linux_2.0.tar.Z".  I
> >got this file from http://www.livingston.com/ and the link to the file is
> >ftp://ftp.livingston.com/pub/le/software/linux/radius_2.0.1_Linux
_2.0.tar.Z
>
>Can anyone help me?  I want to be able to dial-in to my server/firewall on
>Bigpond Cable from around Sydney.

You don't want radius.  If i understand this correctly you have BPC
connecting you to the net and you have a standard phone line with modem
also hooked up to the computer.  Radius can be used to authenticate users
dialing into different access routers from a single authentication source
within the network.  It's something you might use if you were providing
dialup network services (eg. an ISP) to others.

what you probably want to do is maybe set up mgetty to allow remote access
to your machine through the modem, and perhaps set up the ppp options to
assign an ip from one of the private address ranges (like 192.168.*.*) so
that you can establish a point to point session.

there are various ways of getting the end result you are after, i suggest
reading up on the howtos.


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