WinRadius's benefits: 

• Customizing is easier: Can customize all kinds of authentication methods, NAS support, and all special authentication requirements from users.
• Can customized for any kinds of authentication method, such as: password authentication, prepaid authentication, calling authentication, GRIC authentication, etc.
• Can customized for any kinds of NAS, such as: Lucent, Ascend, Shiva, USR/3Com, Cisco, Livingston, Versanet, Acc/Newbridge.

Keywords:

• radius, server, authentication, accounting, AAA, telecommunication 

RFC documents supported:

• RFC 2138, RFC 2139, RFC 2865, RFC 2866, RFC 2867, RFC 2868, RFC 2869

Setup guide:

• Launch WinRadius.
• Click "Configure ODBC automatically" button at "Settings/Database...".
• Restart WinRadius. Now, all settings of WinRadius is OK.
• Add some users to WinRadius by clicking "+" toolbar button.
• Configure your NAS to WinRadius.
• That's all. If these users access to NAS, authentication and accounting information will be logged into WinRadius and be saved to database. Now, you can use RadiusTest to test your WinRadius , please recheck the Radius IP, port and user name. (RadiusTest's secret is default secret, and the user's password is: "password").
• Good luck with you.

Special settings for some special NAS:

• Normally, please check nothing at "Settings/Authentication...".
• If your NAS is Lucent Portmaster X. Please check "Service-Type", "Framed-Type", "Framed-IP-Address" at "Settings/Authentication.../basic".
• If your NAS is CISCO VoIP server, please configure your NAS to support Cisco VSAs and check "Use Access-Accept as Account-Request start record" at "settings/Authentication.../VoIP" of WinRadius. For more details, please go here.
• If your NAS is WLAN(802.11), please configure your NAS to support EAP-MD5(username/password).
• If your NAS is QUINTUM VoIP. Please check "Use Access-Accept as Account-Request start record" at "settings/Authentication.../VoIP".
• For some kinds of NAS, you can configure the users' band-width by setting "Class" attribute at "Settings/Authentication...". For example, "00655360001310720065536000131072" means Input-Peak-Rate=640K(00655360), Input-Average-Rate=128K(00131072), Output-Peak-Rate=640K(00655360), Output-Average-Rate=128K(00131072). If it's no use for you, please just let it be blank.
• If you are using Asterisk, please go to here for details. 

Performance tune:

• Use better hardware, especially use larger memory.
• Tune your database to fasten database. More information please refer to your database's guide.
• Show less Log information.

Usage skills:

• Can restore the origin configuration by delete 'WinRadius.config'. If you changed configuration, please restart WinRadius to make it active.
• All backup information of database is saved in 'WinRadius.backup' file.
• Null password of a user means all passwords is acceptable.
• WinRadius server's interface can be minimized as an icon of task bar; you can also restore it by click the icon.
• If your database shutdown while your WinRadius is running, never mind, WinRadius server will automatic backup all information. What you need do is only do "recovery" operation when your database is OK.