O'Reillys Radius Book - Worth buying

[Jacob Jarick]

I will put it on order as reference is better than nothing :) I have
used radius before but not for ages (2000) I will be using it alot at
this new job so I will need all the good references I can get.

On 4/16/07, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
> Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
> > 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.
>
>   It covers RADIUS.  It's good for people who are completely new to RADIUS.
>
> > There are also amazingly useful, mostly undocumented features like SQL
> > Xlat, which won't be covered anywhere except the mailing list archives.
>
>   As always, patches are welcome.  Even patches to the documentation.
>
> > 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 ;)
>
>   Yeah, it turns out that some of the Packet-Src-IP-Address compares
> weren't even registered.  The code has been re-shuffled, and it should
> now work, including with regular expressions.
>
>   You'll have to list the "expr" module in the "instantiate" section for
>  Packet-Src-IP-Address to work, though.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
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