On Fri 22 Jun 2007, Eshun Benjamin wrote:
RADIUS was *originally* intented to assign IP's. It's been doing that since at least 1993.
Do you mean radius servers has being doing DHCP since 1993 or IP pool stuff. What is is the difference?
RADIUS has been assigning IPs to users since it's inception. Server side IPPools are a simply an easy way to manage limited IP address space across multiple NAS. Whether the RADIUS server assigns a static or dynamic IP address is purely an internal decision of thesoftware and doesn't use any special RADIUS attributes or features on the wire. Therefore whether or not the initial implimentations of RADIUS used pools or simply assigned a static IP to each user or modem, it is correct to say that RADIUS has been assigning IPs since the very beginning. Cheers -- Peter Nixon http://www.peternixon.net/ PGP Key: http://www.peternixon.net/public.asc