Alan DeKok wrote:
Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
I just got this one http://books.theregister.co.uk/catalog/browse.asp?id=746814&group=9880&subca...
Initial flickings through, suggest it's quite indepth .
I've seen that. It has 300+ pages, and 40 pages on RADIUS. I had a hard time reading it, to be honest. Long paragraphs, long sentences, convoluted explanations.
If you're looking for a "howto" book, the O'Reilly book is *much* more suited to that purpose. If you're looking for a book that gives you an overview of ongoing research in AAA, the Wiley book is good.
If you're looking for concepts that aren't covered anywhere else, my book (when I'm eventually done) will do that.
Alan DeKok. -- http://deployingradius.com - The web site of the book http://deployingradius.com/blog/ - The blog - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Yes, they're generally pretty good for that. What put me off the O'Rielly book was it's age.. Although I only started using FreeRADIUS with 1.1.4 , i've seen pretty rapid development. So I was concerned about how much relevance a book published in 2002 has today. There are also amazingly useful, mostly undocumented features like SQL Xlat, which won't be covered anywhere except the mailing list archives. But I guess for theory reference books are still pretty good :) Oh Btw on a completely unrelated subject, if you fix the 'Use Client-Ip-Address/ Packet-Src-IP-Address attribute as a check item' then I can push the CVS head out live and give you some proper feedback ;) -- Arran Cudbard-Bell (ac221@sussex.ac.uk) Authentication Authorisation & Accounting Officer Infrastructure Services | ENG1 FF08 EXT:3900