Radiator Radius Server

    Radiator is the highly flexible, configurable and extensible Radius server from Open System Consultants. Designed from the ground up to offer features and options not found in any other Radius server, it uses the latest Object Oriented technology to achieve superior reliability and flexibility.

    With more than 20 different authentication methods available, Radiator is the Radius server for serious ISPs who want power and flexibility to meet the needs of their growing user base.

    Radiator can authenticate users from a wide variety of different user databases, such as

    • Flat files in standard Radius user database format
    • DBM files in Merit DBM file format
    • Unix password format files (including shadow files)
    • SQL databases such as Oracle, Informix, Sybase, mSQL, mysql, Microsoft SQL 6.5, ODBC, Interbase and many others
    • Proxying to other Radius servers
    • LDAP (Umich and Netscape)
    • Tacacs Plus (PAP and CHAP)
    • NIS+
    • CDB
    • PAM, and thus any authentication method supported by PAM
    • SecurityDynamics ACE/Server Radius
    • RAdmin User Administration
    • Rodopi
    • Platypus
    • Emerald
    • Interbiller 98
    • Freeside
    • Your legacy user database
    • Native Windows NT user database and domains (even from Unix!)
    • External programs
    • iPASS (TM) Roaming Network
    • GRIC Global Roaming Network
    • Other methods contributed by Radiator users.
    Radiator can authenticate for many different realms and clients at the same time, with different databases, options and authentication methods in each realm.

    Radiator can store accounting information in a variety of formats, such as:

    • Flat files in standard Livingston radius accounting file format
    • SQL databases such as Oracle, Informix, Sybase, mSQL, mysql, Microsoft SQL 6.5, ODBC, Interbase and many others
    • Proxying to other Radius servers
    • RAdmin User Administration
    • Rodopi
    • Platypus
    • Emerald
    • Your legacy accounting database
    • wtmp files

    Radiator supports a wide range of features not found on many other Radius servers:

    • Full source code provided.
    • Unlimited users.
    • Works with GRIC Global Roaming
    • Works with iPASS roaming, both inbound and outbound authentication and accounting.
    • Works with Platypus, one of the best ISP billing packages around. Works with either native or RadiusNT compatibility mode.
    • Works with Emerald ISP billing.
    • Works with Rodopi ISP billing.
    • Works with Interbiller an inexpensive ISP billing package for Windows 95, Windows 98 and NT.
    • Works with Freeside, a free ISP billing package for Unix.
    • Works with Security Dynamics ACE/Server Radius
    • Runs on most Unix hosts (including Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, SunOS, AIX, IRIX, SCO Open Server, Digital, etc) NT 4, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Rhapsody.
    • Test GUI for Unix (NT 4 and Windows 95 coming soon) allows you to test user passwords and to load test your server. Works with any Radius server.
    • SNMP support for the IETF Radius Server MIB: gather server stats with SNMP.
    • Easy to use Web reports for usage analysis users sessions details. Allows your administrators and customers to see usage information on a web page and drill down to connection details.
    • Supports IETF Radius Tunnelling attributes.
    • Grouping, chaining, diverting and reusing of authentication methods is easy and means you can authenticate users even with very unusual collections of user databases.
    • Optional session database (DBM or SQL) and Web view.
    • Flexible and extensible event logging.
    • Utilities for creating and updating user databases in various formats are included.
    • Vendor-Specific attributes, both in and out, including USR/3COM.
    • Simultaneous-Use check item can optionally verify logins for Livingston, Portslave and USR/3COM TotalControl, Ascend, Cisco, Bay, Computone, Shiva LanRover, Tigris, Xyplex. Works even with multiple server instances, via internal, DBM or SQL session databases.
    • Automatic IP address allocation.
    • CHAP authentication.
    • Check items can be regular expressions
    • Automatically choose authentication methods based on any combination of request attributes.
    • Ascend abinary Filter attributes, including generic, ip and ipx
    • Plug-in authentication handlers.
    • Username rewriting and realm stripping.
    • Object-Oriented design and understandable code (with many comments).
    • Works with almost any SQL database schema.
    • Fault tolerant connection to your SQL server recovers when your SQL server recovers.
    • Logging to log files, STDOUT, SQL, syslog, or your your own logging system.
    • Proxy-State and Proxy-Action support.
    • Proxy to primary/secondary radius servers with multiple fallbacks and round-robin DNS.
    • Multiple DEFAULT users with optional Fall-Through.
    • Auth-Type cascades authentication to another user database of any type.
    • Block authentication according to time of day and day of week.
    • Rewriting of requests and replies during forwarding and proxying.
    • Run-time variable substitution in reply items.
    • Multi-homed hosts.
    • Primary/secondary and multiple redundant servers.
    • Connect-Rate limits maximum permitted connection speed.
    • Flat file (or any other method) backup databse in the case of SQL server failure.
    • Supports plaintext, Unix Crypt, and MD5 crypt passwords in any combination.
    • Block logins based on any combination of NAS and port
    • Ascend Tunnel-Password encryption
    • Prefix and Suffix check items.
    • Easily configurable rejection messages: tell your user why they cant log in.
    • Extreme flexibility and configurability
    • And much, much more.....

    Radiator is tested with the following clients and servers and will work with any Radius compliant client or server.

    • Ascend MAX
    • Cisco 5200
    • Cisco 5300
    • Cisco 2511
    • Cisco 1500
    • Livingston Portmaster 25
    • Livingston Portmaster 3
    • Portslave 1.16
    • Merit proxy server 2.4
    • Merit proxy server 3.5
    • SecurityDynamics ACE/Server Radius
    • GRIC AimTraveler
    • iPASS Net Server and Roam Server
    • USR/3Com Total Control (including HiPer ARC)
    • Microsoft PPTP
    • BayNetwork RAC8000
    • Bay Annex Server 5399
    • ACC
    • Xyplex
    • Computone
    • Assured Access X1000
    • And any other RADIUS compatible device

    For the busy ISP and network administrator, Radiator brings benefits like:

    • Smooth migration path from small to very large ISP's with no upgrade fees
    • Works in a wide variety of environments
    • Easy modification to suit your special requirements
    • Compliance with relevant standards
    • Quick to set up
    • Free upgrades forever
    • Easy assimilation of new user populations from other ISPs during mergers and acquisitions
    • Easy migration from small to extremely large user populations: change your database type as your requirements change
    • Use standard tools like SNMP to monitor your server

    More Information:

    • Quotes from our customers
    • Installation instructions
    • Installation and Reference manual HTML Postscript Acrobat
    • Revision History
    • Pricing and order form
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Radiator Y2K Statement
    • Some of our customers
    • Authorised Resellers
    • email info@open.com.au for more information.
    • Download area (registered customers only)
    • Latest patches (registered customers only)

    Coming soon

    • Graphical user interface for all platforms (Unix, Windows and NT) makes configuration and user management easy, even for beginners.

    Minimum Requirements

    Radiator requires:
    • Unix (including Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, SunOS, AIX, IRIX, SCO Open Server, Digital, etc) Windows 95, Windows 98, NT4 or Rhapsody
    • Perl 5.004 or better
    • Perl MD module version 1.7 or better
    • Approx 3MB of disk space

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