I have a simple question.  What idiot at Microsoft put a restriction of 50
RADIUS clients on the standard version of Windows 2003?  In order to support
more clients, IAS informs me to install Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition, or
Datacenter Edition.

Yet Windows 2000 supports more than this.  Tell me this is a joke?  Tell me
there is a fix for this?

RADIUS is a simple authentication service.  My only guess is that the folks
in accounting ripped the features apart and decided to squeeze every last
dime they could by forcing customers to purchase a more expensive OS.
Simply put, we as customers are paying more money for less.  Microsoft has
good products.  However their silly restrictions such as the one mentioned
above are what drives people like me, a long-time Microsoft supporter and
systems integrator to look elsewhere - like Linux.  If I'm wrong, tell me so
and I'll humbly apologize.  But if I'm not-which I don't think I am- it is
inexcusable.  Time to start reading that Red Hat book...

One pissed off engineer,

Chris Sommers

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Not only that but...

a) They no longer support IPX routing !WTF!... (learned that the hard way)
b) Subnets and FQDN names for Clients are only supported in the Enterprise a
nd Datacenter editions. (M$ accounting to blame I'm sure)

but I should mention that...
a) IAS's new support for Remote Access Quarantine is a great (as long as you
 don't need NAT/Firewall)
b) It now (finally) supports direct SQL logging through XM-SQL. (albeit you 
need a master DB admin to get it to work the way you need it to)

Keith Andrew Hill

There are only 10 types of people...
Those that understand binary and those that don't

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A "Client" is only a point of entry not a "user".  So for example, if you ha
ve a VPN server, the VPN server would be one "RADIUS client"  You can have a
s many users as you have CALs for authenticate through the client.  If you h
ave 50 VPN Servers/RAS Boxes or other points of entry, then you probably nee
d Enterprise Edition.  This is the way I have always understood RADIUS.  May
 be I am wrong?  I dunno, that is just my 2 cents.
Hope it helps.


quote:
Originally posted by Chris Sommers 
I have a simple question.  What idiot at Microsoft put a restriction of 50
RADIUS clients on the standard version of Windows 2003?  In order to support
more clients, IAS informs me to install Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition, or
Datacenter Edition.

Yet Windows 2000 supports more than this.  Tell me this is a joke?  Tell me
there is a fix for this?

RADIUS is a simple authentication service.  My only guess is that the folks
in accounting ripped the features apart and decided to squeeze every last
dime they could by forcing customers to purchase a more expensive OS.
Simply put, we as customers are paying more money for less.  Microsoft has
good products.  However their silly restrictions such as the one mentioned
above are what drives people like me, a long-time Microsoft supporter and
systems integrator to look elsewhere - like Linux.  If I'm wrong, tell me so
and I'll humbly apologize.  But if I'm not-which I don't think I am- it is
inexcusable.  Time to start reading that Red Hat book...

One pissed off engineer,

Chris Sommers 

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Yep. THat is the correct interpretation. The clients can be VPN servers,
APs, or any such entry points. It is *not* a restriction on the number of
users.

Mudit
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> A "Client" is only a point of entry not a "user".  So for example, if
> you have a VPN server, the VPN server would be one "RADIUS client"  You
> can have as many users as you have CALs for authenticate through the
> client.  If you have 50 VPN Servers/RAS Boxes or other points of entry,
> then you probably need Enterprise Edition.  This is the way I have
> always understood RADIUS.  May be I am wrong?  I dunno, that is just my
> 2 cents.
> Hope it helps.
>
>
> Chris Sommers wrote: 
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