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What is RADIUS ?

     RADIUS is the Remote Access Dial-In User Service, an
     authorization, Authentication, and Accounting client-server
     protocol. RADIUS is the de facto industry standard for remote
     access AAA (Authentication, Authorization, Accounting) , as well
     as an IETF standard. In general, it's a network daemon (network
     process) which performs authentication, authorization and
     accounting actions when someone login on a Network Access Server
     with a dial-up client or logout from it. Typically RADIUS server
     is used by Internet Service Providers (ISP) to performs AAA
     tasks. But frequently, it's useful in a case when your need to
     provide any kind of controlled dial-up access in your
     orginization. Technical specification of the basic features which
     are supported by all radius servers you can find in RFC 2865/RFC
     2138. Accounting information is specified in RFC2866/RFC 2139.

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What is RADIUS-VMS project ?

     RADIUS-VMS started as port of the Livingston's RADIUS 2.01 server
     to OpenVMS which contains a lot of VMS specific features.  This
     project has been sponsored by DLS Internet Service Inc. and has
     been performed by Ruslan R. Laishev.

     RADIUS-VMS - it's RADIUS server for OpenVMS multithread by DEC
     Threads , which was fully rewritten from original sources and
     stay under active development for implementation of new features.
     It intend to be flexible and robutness solution as part of
     non-stop infrastructure for support a business of Internet
     Service Providers (Dial-UP security, roaming concept),
     Mobile/Cellular Phone company (Next generation phone network , IP
     Telephony service) and so on, serving a huge number of the
     requests. Using of the power of the OpenVMS cluster (ranked by
     IDC and Gartner Groups as "King of clustesr") get an ability to
     implement the mission-critical platform provided an automatic
     failover and a load balancing as well as real high security and
     performance.

     You can find more details about of current version in a
     documentation. There is BASIC - free of charge version, and
     ENHANCED - commercial, full-function version of the RADIUS-VMS
     (for VAX/VMS this version is free of charge). Follows are main
     features of the RADIUS-VMS (emphatic text is related to ENHANCED
     version):

        * Run under OpenVMS VAX/Alpha 6.1 or later
        * Run under: PSC TCPWare-TCP & Multinet (tested with latest
          version of the products), DEC TCPIP Service (formerly known
          as UCX)
        * SYSUAF based authentication and authorization
        * Long passwords (up to 96 bytes) and passwords change support
          (SYSUAF only)
        * AUDIT + OPCOM messaging
        * Security based on VMS facilities (AUDIT, Intrusion
          detection)
        * Accounting of users/NAS/port activities in VMS ACCOUNTING
          format as well as in the traditional RADIUS's .DETAIL format
        * Run in VMS Cluster environment supporting cluster IP alias
        * High performance with large USERS file
        * File I/O using VMS RMS
        * Network I/O using VMS $QIO
        * Multithreaded by DEC Threads (up to 128 concurrent threads),
          using kernel threads under VMS/Alpha >7.x
        * Using of right id(s) for additional authorization
        * A simple migration from UNIX & M$ Windoze RADIUS(s)

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Trademarks

     VMS, OpenVMS, VAX, Alpha, DEC, DEC Server, Digital are trademarks
     of Digital Equipment Corporation. Process Software TCPWare-TCP,
     Multinet (TM) are trademark of Process Software Corporation.
     RADIUS is registered trademarks of Livingston (TM) Enterprises,
     Inc. "MadGoat", "MadGoat Software", and the MadGoat MX are
     trademarks of MadGoat Software.

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C U, Ruslan R. Laishev (laishev@smtp.deltatel.ru)
        http://www.radiusvms.com