On Monday 09 June 2003 19:21, Zygmuntowicz Michal wrote: > > Speaking just for myself, of course, I have been interested in this > > thread. I hope you don't cut it off or take it private simply because > > you think others aren't interested. > > I think that this thread was pointless. Every experienced system > designer knows what are standards for and why they are so useful. > I do not tell that Radius is good or bad. I could said that MySQL > is useless and nobody needs it because my VoIP installation does > not use it. Mysql is a storage, not an authentication service. You can attach it like a backend to your Radius server. GW / GK <--Radius--> backend. That backend could be a SQL database (mysql, oracle, ms-sql), DBM, LDAP, flat text file... just anything. Standarts are made to be open and give the developer a freedom. I will highly prefer to buy let say Cisco or Quintum, because I will choose (or write my own) a Radius based billing software out of many ones. I will be able to modify it the way I want. What if a gateway comes with a "closed" billing software, written by the gateway vendor. This is stupid. A lot of people here have experience with the traditional PBXes and their vendor issued management/billing software. Standarts like Radius and SNMP make the world moving forward. They create order, scalability, compatibility and etc. My last e-mail on the thread. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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=8549 > Homepage: http://www.gnugk.org/ thread. > > For me, Radius makes my system 1.scalable 2. flexible 3. resistant > to failures 4. protects my backends from exposing to public > 5. I have one interface that understand many backends gnugk does not > (Teodor made a good point on it). > > --- > Michal Zygmuntowicz ------------------------------------------------------- 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/
