Hi!
After using radius for the first time, I came up with several questions about "why and how" to use radius. Please comment my questions:
As in the tutorial, I used freeradius and put the SIP users into the raddb/users file. Do I have to make this manually for every user or are there any tools do to this? Can radius be used with a backend database for storing user data? If yes, why not directly use the database without radius?
Using mysql for user authentication, adding new user is simple - serctl or serweb. I miss such a simple solution for radius.
Can/will radius also be used for location contacts - or is it a must to use mysql(postgres) for persistent user location?
Is there any functionality within ser+radius that can't be done with ser+mysql?
The only point I see for using radius is that many PSTN-gateways support writing CDRs into radius and billing systems will query these CDRs - but why use radius for ser?
thanks klaus