On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 06:06, Chuck Peters wrote: > One of our Network Admins Eric likes the USR Total Control and says we can > pick up a used one for a good price. Does anyone have experience with > them or comments on the performance and reliablity?
A google search on "USR Total Control" turns up two security issues in the first page of results... > We also offer text/shell dialup access because a few people still use slow > old machines and a number of seniors just use PINE for email. We can keep > a few of the old analog lines going for them, but it would be prefable to > offer both ppp and shell on the same dialup pool like we are now. I suggest getting a Cyclades card and running Portslave the machine that has it. It allows PPP, SLIP, telnet, rsh, and ssh connections from the terminal server to a specified machine (controlled by RADIUS). > We will be using OpenLDAP for authenication. It is a must that we be able > to control users online time and vary it for a few, volunteers and other > specified people get extra time while most of the users get a couple of > hours per day and we limit it during heavy usage. Does anyone have > comments on that issue? There are a number of RADIUS servers that talk LDAP. FreeRADIUS seems pretty good, I expect it can do what you want. Portslave supports limiting connect time based on the RADIUS data. > CCIL is expecting to spend 5-7K on this so that kind of limits our > equipment options. Maybe something besides the USR Total Control would be > a better choice. Any recommendations? Cyclades products cost considerably less. See http://www.cyclades.com/ . -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
