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Summary: It may be the only book on RADIUS ...
Review: ...!... The RFCs tend to be full of nitty gritty legalese, by the very nature of their being formal specifications. That is the reason one would want to read a book, such as this one, in the hope of gaining implementation and deployment perspective that may be lacking in the the RFCs. This book does not measure up. It is poorly organized, is ridden with glaring errors, and does not explain key concepts well, if at all. If the author has brought any technical expertise on the subject matter to bear, it certainly does not show up. It looks and feels like a potpourri of hastily put together notes by a sysadmin technician; nothing more.
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Summary: Best and only radius book.
Review: A very thorough and detailed -without fluff O'reilly book. Since Freeradius has no documentation, this was godsent. It only lacks a little when it comes to configuring Freeradius with other databases (Mysql is the example setup), but otherwise very thorough.
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Summary: Best and only radius book.
Review: A very thorough and detailed -without fluff O'reilly book. Since Freeradius has no documentation, this was godsent. It only lacks a little when it comes to configuring Freeradius with other databases (Mysql is the example setup), but otherwise very thorough.
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Summary: Good to start with a Radius
Review: Clear documentation on Radius env but you must read another document, most on freeradius, to build a real solutions.
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Summary: Good overview and reference
Review: I found this book a good reference to RADIUS. While some content is available in the RFCs, it's handy to have it compact and easy to read inside this book. The overview and guide to FreeRADIUS is good to have, especially considering the lack of available documentation from the project. I especially found the security chapter helpful, a candid discussion of where RADIUS fails. While there could be more coverage in this book, I think it's a great one to have available. Recommended.
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Summary: Bad copy of RFC
Review: Let me just compare one sentence from the book and RFC: The book, page 20:
Authenticator
... In this field, the most important octet is transmitted before any other ... RFC 2865, page 15:
Authenticator
... The most significant octet is transmitted first. ...
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: RADIUS is an excellent book which covers everything you need to know. The book is full of practical information - including deployment strategies which make sense, sample configurations, and a walk-through on using a particular RADIUS server. It's a typical O'Reilly book - well written, compelling, and practical. Definitely recommended."
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: RADIUS is an excellent book which covers everything you need to know. The book is full of practical information - including deployment strategies which make sense, sample configurations, and a walk-through on using a particular RADIUS server. It's a typical O'Reilly book - well written, compelling, and practical. Definitely recommended."
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Summary: Inaccurate copy of RFCs
Review: Reading the other reviews of this book I was expecting it to be fantastic. I was disappointed. The book is well written and provides a good overview. However, I was hoping that I could use this book to take me through a fairly complex RADIUS implementation using FreeRADIUS and LDAP. It was not at all adequate in that regard. The configuration examples are sparse and not explained in detail. I was left with a lot of questions about how the RADIUS software actually implements the standard. How user files are parsed, how attribute matching is done, what is actually checked and returned. Things like that were not covered at all. This is a good introduction to RADIUS, but if you have a real project to do you are still going to have to spend a lot of time digging for more info on the web or in poorly written documentation that is available out there. I would call this the best RADIUS book because it is the ONLY RADIUS book.
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Summary: Not that great.
Review: Reading the other reviews of this book I was expecting it to be fantastic. I was disappointed. The book is well written and provides a good overview. However, I was hoping that I could use this book to take me through a fairly complex RADIUS implementation using FreeRADIUS and LDAP. It was not at all adequate in that regard. The configuration examples are sparse and not explained in detail. I was left with a lot of questions about how the RADIUS software actually implements the standard. How user files are parsed, how attribute matching is done, what is actually checked and returned. Things like that were not covered at all. This is a good introduction to RADIUS, but if you have a real project to do you are still going to have to spend a lot of time digging for more info on the web or in poorly written documentation that is available out there. I would call this the best RADIUS book because it is the ONLY RADIUS book.
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