Conversion to Version 2

[A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk]

Hi,

> I have been using FreeRadius 1.x for a number of years.  It has worked  
> just fine.  All I am using it for is to authenticate and authorize  
> dial-in users (its about as simple as you can get).  The only unusual  
> item is I have a couple of fairly complex modules for authorization and 
> accounting.  The question is should I bother to upgrade to 2.x.  I don't 
> have a need for any of the new features it provides.  I don't even use 
> most of the features in 1.x.  My largest concern is the modules.  I don't 
> recall seeing anything here about what changes would be required for them 
> other than I believe they have to be compiled with the server.  Currently 
> the modules are compiled separately and placed in /usr/local/lib and 
> everything just works.

in your case, reasons would be, stability, speed, bug fixes,
new server statistics access (SNMP and radmin tool), easy debugging
of single users or NAS etc. the new version provides all of this
for you - and more for others due to its extensibility.

alan