Re: Windows 2003 Radius (IAS)
From: bippy_b (bippy_b.12lr0y_at_mail.webservertalk.com)
Date: 03/04/04
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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 10:19:48 -0600
A "Client" is only a point of entry not a "user". So for example, if
you have a VPN server, the VPN server would be one "RADIUS client" You
can have as many users as you have CALs for authenticate through the
client. If you have 50 VPN Servers/RAS Boxes or other points of entry,
then you probably need Enterprise Edition. This is the way I have
always understood RADIUS. May be I am wrong? I dunno, that is just my
2 cents.
Hope it helps.
Chris Sommers wrote:
> *I have a simple question. What idiot at Microsoft put a restriction
> of 50
> RADIUS clients on the standard version of Windows 2003? In order to
> support
> more clients, IAS informs me to install Windows 2003 Enterprise
> Edition, or
> Datacenter Edition.
>
> Yet Windows 2000 supports more than this. Tell me this is a joke?
> Tell me
> there is a fix for this?
>
> RADIUS is a simple authentication service. My only guess is that the
> folks
> in accounting ripped the features apart and decided to squeeze every
> last
> dime they could by forcing customers to purchase a more expensive
> OS.
> Simply put, we as customers are paying more money for less.
> Microsoft has
> good products. However their silly restrictions such as the one
> mentioned
> above are what drives people like me, a long-time Microsoft supporter
> and
> systems integrator to look elsewhere - like Linux. If I'm wrong,
> tell me so
> and I'll humbly apologize. But if I'm not-which I don't think I am-
> it is
> inexcusable. Time to start reading that Red Hat book...
>
> One pissed off engineer,
>
> Chris Sommers *
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