Hi , I Hope to do this for around 1000 users ... would a single machine be able to take the load/create VPNs of around 400 simultaneous users. Does some other form of authentication/accounting also exists . Deepak ----- Original Message ----- From: "Torge Szczepanek" <advrouting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Deepak singhal" <dsinghal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <lartc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [LARTC] Authetication on LAN > Deepak singhal wrote: > > > I want to do authentication and accounting for the users on the LAN who > > use my linux gateway for internet access. My linux box is running redhat > > 6.2 along with ipchains and masquerading done. > > > proxying of squid. I doesn`t know whether PPP over Ethernet can do this ? > > Could anyone suggest me what to do so that i can authenticate my users > > on the LAN and also keep and accounting record for the usage . Their > > are commercial versions available in the market doing the same but i > > want some freeware . > > You should take a look at PoPTop http://poptop.lineo.com/ > > This is a solution for building a VPN Server. You can start PPTP session > to your gateway with user/password authentication. You can assign > special IP adresses so you can also do accounting of traffic. > > I don't know how many users you need. It seems that this software is not > yet tested with more than 50 or 60 users. I am planning to set up a test > installation with authentication and accounting of about 4000 users > perhaps using a number of 4 to 8 gateways. > > It is based on the PPTP-protocol, which is implemented in Micro$oft > Windows (VPN-Adapters). There is also a Linux and FreeBSD client avaible. > > Because all needed tools are included in MS Windows, it is easy to set > this up on the client machines with no need of additional software. > > -- > Torge Szczepanek > >
