Jerry, I hope that with that post we will put an end of this issue :) On Friday 06 June 2003 21:21, Jeremy McNamara wrote: > Teodor Georgiev wrote: > >The many thousands of players on the prepaid VoIP market are one of the > >biggest proofs that your are completely wrong. > >They do work and make a lot of traffic and profit :) > > They could be making more profit if they didn't have to have all of the > administration and support that RADIUS requires. > > >What is really so hard since there are more than 100 VoIP prepaid billing > >software packages? > > And every single one of them is either dramaticly overcomplicated or > only works with very specific gateway's. > > Just think about it. What would you rather have: > > Gateway ----> Radius server ----> Database > > or > > Gateway ----> Database The correct picture is: VoIP gateway <---> standart interface <---> Database YOU NEED AN INTERFACE to "speak" with the database. What does a database mean? DBM, MS-SQL, Oracle, flat text files, DBase, FOXpro? Where is the intermediator??? You have to have a STANDART that speak ALL THE LANGUAGES. Well, such a standart is Radius. Do you have a better UNIVERSAL/STANDART proposition? > > > I certainly know which option is more complicated and has more of a > potential for failure. > > > I run a major H.323, SIP and IAX VoIP termination service and there is > not and will NEVER be a single RADIUS server in my network. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. _______________________________________________ List: Openh323gk-users@lists.sourceforge.net Archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id?49 Homepage: http://www.gnugk.org/
