[Kamailio-Users] Demerits of using normal Authentication insted of radius or diameter auth

[Juha Heinanen]

Hemanshu Patel writes:

 > When i test with radius authentication, means using radius_www_authorize
 > at max i am getting around 500 cps for Registration, but when i use normal
 > www_authorize i am getting around 2000 CPS....

are you sure that you have turned your radius server properly?  in case
of freeradius, num_sql_socks should be at least as high as you have
proxy processes access radius.

 > So, i was wondering what is merits and demerits of not using Radius based
 > authentication.

perhaps nowadays radius does not have merits of its own, but it is very
convenient to get as reply items the various attributes related to
domain, user, and uri itself of the authenticated request.  

perhaps you can nowadays do the same with avp dp call or calls, but in
the early days, it was more difficult that using radius.  the same holds
for attributes related to the UAS.

-- juha