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|    Paul Quinn to Kurt Weiske    |
|    The new Radius, RFC    |
|    30 Nov 14 09:13:46    |
      Hi! Kurt,              On 29/11/2014 3:16 AM, you wrote:               KW> I'd like to throw a question out there -- I'm using Radius, used Argus for        KW> some time. I'd always wanted to be able to use the nodelist directly, but        KW> in able to get polling to work had to load in the ARGUS.TXT overrides,       then        KW> in the TCP/IP restrictions field entered BND as a required field.              That's weird. I checked the nodelist and in our Z3 version there's only two       fellers using a ",BND," listing: one in Kentucky & one in Chile (used in       multiple entries). I do have an old ARGUS.TXT from March of this year, and I       can see that all the entries require ",BND," nodes... fascinating... in a Star       Trek 'Scottie meets keyboard' thing.               KW> I'd like to be able to have Radius dial from the nodelist, but it seems        KW> that it can't parse the combinations of flags to define BINK connectivity.              Dial? You meant to call on IP... right? Well I can't say that what I have       done is better than any other bloke's way. (Certainly since seeing some       inconsistencies with Radius's behaviour reported in this echo over the years,       and since seeing Björn's remarks on the state of the source code for Radius       and then Argus.) I have both the BND & BNP flags as well as IBN in the       required restrictions. I don't know how the older ones got in that table.              (I even tried ICM but that didn't work. Radius is still fixated on CM nodes       only... or ",U,Txy" nodes [which is 'cactus' now].)               KW> Is there a better way of getting Radius to connect via BINK than using the        KW> override file?              Mmm... I don't use any override /file/ but I do have several overrides in the       'Nodes' grid, or as seen from the Config-->'Node Inspector'. Most of those are       for passworded links or private (Pvt,...) nodes. On the down side, I do know       that a couple are for links that, for who knows what reason, just will not       parse properly from the nodelist in Radius.              On the plus side I will tell you that there only 18 overrides in the Nodes       grid. Generally, Radius also handles INA-flagged nodelist entries; something       that Argus doesn't know about IIRC. Quite often one-off netmails just get       transferred during sessions 'slicker than snot'.              I need breakfast... so too, the animals...              Cheers,       Paul.              --- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0        * Origin: Paul's Puppy 4.2.1 multiuser vBox - M'boro, Qld, OZ (3:640/1384)    |
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