From: "Deepak singhal" <dsinghal@spacewayindia.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] Authetication on LAN
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 07:26:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-98939183928023@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-98938697519917@msgid-missing>
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@szczepanek.de>
To: "Deepak singhal" <dsinghal@spacewayindia.com>; <lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl>
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
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-09 7:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-09 5:43 [LARTC] Authetication on LAN Deepak singhal
2001-05-09 6:28 ` Torge Szczepanek
2001-05-09 7:11 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-05-09 7:26 ` Deepak singhal [this message]
2001-05-10 14:19 ` Michael T. Babcock
2001-05-10 17:07 ` Torge Szczepanek
2001-05-10 23:24 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-05-11 1:05 ` Michael T. Babcock
2001-05-11 1:10 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-05-11 1:15 ` Michael T. Babcock
2001-05-11 1:24 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-05-14 0:41 ` Michael T. Babcock
2001-05-14 1:13 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-05-14 1:25 ` Ramin Alidousti
2001-05-14 2:08 ` Mike Fedyk
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