noob with some questions

[P. K.]

And Mr. Friendly wrote:

> Yes.  It's clear you're not willing to pay for FreeRADIUS support,
> and would rather go with a commercial solution.

Huh? Well, that comment makes no sense but I'll try to squeeze something useful out of it....  Just so I'm clear, because this would be news to me, FreeRadius paid support is available? From where? 

>  It's also clear
> you're upset that you didn't get immediate answers to all of your
> questions, for free.  There's little anyone can do to solve that
> problem.

Ah, okay. So you do operate under the "you get what you pay for" philosophy. And BTW Thanks for taking the time to respond to this email with insults and accusations. Does the paid for service come with your snide responses as well? I'd just love to be able to pay real money for the honor of subjecting myself to your charismatic attitude. 


--Paul

Paul Kuchinski
Network Administrator
Smeal College of Business Administration
Penn State University

email: pbk105 at psu.edu
phone: (814)865-0366
fax:   (814)865-1845



Alan DeKok wrote:
> "P. K." <pbk105 at psu.edu> wrote:
>   
>> Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, the FreeRadius documentation and 
>> support is so abysmal and my experience too limited to make good use of 
>> the advice you gave. Each OSS package has its benefits and weaknesses I 
>> guess. For instance I've used ISC DHCP server for years and it has 
>> stellar support from the programmer, great on-line information and 
>> documentation so much so that I can't imagine using anything else.
>>     
>
>   ISC DHCP has one, maybe two full-time programmers working on it, ISC
> has 100's of 1000's of dollars in funds to support it, and companies
> have paid large sums of money to for ISC to write additional
> documentation.
>
>   
>> Perhaps in the future the FreeRadius writer's will realize how useless 
>> their software is with the level of documentation and support they are 
>> providing and choose to make improvements or maybe they'll just continue 
>> to operate on a "you get what you pay for basis."
>>     
>
>   Yes.  It's clear you're not willing to pay for FreeRADIUS support,
> and would rather go with a commercial solution.  It's also clear
> you're upset that you didn't get immediate answers to all of your
> questions, for free.  There's little anyone can do to solve that
> problem.
>
>   And I will note that I've dealt with many people who've installed
> multiple servers, commercial and open source.  Most say that the
> FreeRADIUS documentation is more than adequate for their needs.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
> --
>   http://deployingradius.com       - The web site of the book
>   http://deployingradius.com/blog/ - The blog
>
>
>