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WAX610 RADIUS - Need separate Authentication & Accounting Servers
Hi, The WAX610 AP does not allow different RADIUS servers to be defined for authentication and accounting functions. This is very disappointing given that this is a business product. The sce...
BasuKhodanapur please.
Hi -BAM- ,
There will not be a separate accounting server config field now.
Initially we had separate radius server field for authentication and accounting, later we received some enhancement to have it common, so we removed the accounting IP filed, currently the authentication IP will be applied to accounting as well.
There is a switch to enable accounting server.
Thanks,
Basavaraj
Hi,
thanks very much for the response.
Very dissapointing that this option will not be avaialble as it renders the product unable to be integrated into our environment due to such limitation.
Will return this product and go for TP-Link in future.
Thanks again and best regards.
BasuKhodanapur wrote:
There will not be a separate accounting server config field now.
Initially we had separate radius server field for authentication and accounting, later we received some enhancement to have it common, so we removed the accounting IP filed, currently the authentication IP will be applied to accounting as well.
Interesting "enhancement" - What is the practical reason to remove this universal config options? Bunches of users are operating RADIUS on dedicated IPs for authentication, and a different set on the data collection....
Looks like a blind enhancement to simplify controls - from a green table - without taking the complex reality into consideration.
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