Off-topic: DHCP server with radius support

[Peter Nixon]

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.

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