Hi, On 8/19/2018 4:29 PM, Nathan Ward wrote:
My view - if my billing system is so tightly integrated that it requires direct database access to my RADIUS system, I use another billing system - it doesn’t scale like that. That doesn’t help Michael of course, but, may help others interested in this topic. To be fair to our vendor, it is designed specifically as a WISP billing system, and WISPs are generally on the small side. Many ISPs of that size also have a fear of RADIUS servers due to not understanding them and the complexity, so the successful vendors are those that promise to not require a RADIUS server in order to work. When we first talked to the vendor, they went out of their way to make it clear to us that their product did not require a RADIUS server and worked fine without it, apparently due to past experience where a WISP went with a different product on the perception that our vendor required a RADIUS server to work properly. It did not bother us because we have used RADIUS for a long time.
Larger ISPs just would not use that product to begin with.