(ASCEND) Radius IP Pool without radipad

[Jonathan Ruano <kobalt@pobox.com>]

I fixed a bug on radipad once, but I never saw a stable configuration
running for more than a week. I think the radipad thing is a good
idea, but when I tested, it didnt work right.

You can set up pools in each NAS, and let itself assign them. That 
is achieved setting no Framed-Address in RADIUS response. The standard 
says that it should be done setting a fake 255.255.255.254 ip in 
Framed-Address attribute. I'm not really sure about it, now.

There's a way to set up the NASes with the pools via RADIUS (the NAS
asks for it when it receives a pool # that doesnt know about), but we 
prefer setting the pools manually, a separate slice for each NAS.

In our system, I hacked the user_find function to assign dynamically
an ip via an SQL database. That works for us, but may want a cleaner
solution.

> From: vadillo@rcp.net.pe (Enrique Vadillo)
> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:01:19 -0500
> Subject: (ASCEND) Radius IP Pool without radipad
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to assign IPs dynamically from radius, i use ascend radius
> version 1.16 1998/18/06, along with a MAX TNT running Software version 7.2.0.
> 
> I have been trying to configure MAX specific IP address pools in radius 
> according to http://www.michael.phatcatz.net/radius/routbrdg.htm and
> for test purposes i've been using 'radpwtst' (a perl utility that emulates
> NAS behaviour, it comes with Radiator) but i've never seen my radius server 
> sending back the 'Framed-IP-Address' field to my client emulator, which kind
> of worries me since i do see it's sent when the user is assigned a static IP 
> address (thru 'users' file) using the same client emulator.
> 
> Questions:
> 
> 	- Do i have to *actually* use my MAX TNT to get the IP i want/need
> 	  dynamically? this would not work with NAS emulators?
> 
> 	- Does anyone have this radius-based *ONE* IP-Pool solution working 
> 	  without radipad? if so, would you have any tips? urls?
> 
> Thank you so much.
> 
> Enrique-
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