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Own install of CoovaAAA
Wed, 09/05/2007 - 15:03 — Rico2007
Is CoovaAAA purely a hosted solution?
From a business perspective (mine) using a hosted solution is a poor choice as im reliant upon someone elso to provide my services - if the service is taken away at a later date then i have problems.
From a Hosted Service Provider point of view, i cant see the benefit of keeping it as a hosted service unless a charging mechanism is introduced at a later date.
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Re: Own install of CoovaAAA
CoovaRADIUS Community Edition has turned out to be vapourware.
Coova have thrown their weight behind a partnership with Open-Mesh and focused their resources on CoovaOM.
Following is a statement from Open-Mesh (http://www.open-mesh.com/activekb/questions/4/Open-Mesh+Roadmap)
Re: Own install of CoovaAAA
From a business perspective (mine) using a hosted solution is a poor choice as im reliant upon someone elso to provide my services - if the service is taken away at a later date then i have problems.
From a Hosted Service Provider point of view, i cant see the benefit of keeping it as a hosted service unless a charging mechanism is introduced at a later date.
Thought it would be timely to revisit this comment...
Since this comment was made CoovaRadius Community Edition has been announced. It promises to address the concerns voiced by Rico2007 but it has yet to be released.
Taking away hosted services is a real concern as it can happen suddenly and without warning. One example is the forum service hosted by Meraki. One day it was there and the next it was not (http://forums.meraki.com/)
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... - if the service is taken away at a later date then i have problems.
From a Hosted Service Provider point of view, i cant see the benefit of keeping it as a hosted service unless a charging mechanism is introduced at a later date.
Well the service hasn't been taken away but the developer is taking Coova in a lot of different directions and the performance of CoovaAAA has been suffering of late.
I'm really only interested in addressing a small number of basic user needs and these are close to being addressed by daloRADIUS (see: http://daloradius.wiki.sourceforge.net/RoadMap" target="_blank ). Of particular interest is the User's Portal interface for users to view their info.
I really don't want the hassle of maintaining my own RADIUS server but if Coova aren't up to the job I may not have any choice.
Re: Own install of CoovaAAA
No, no, no... CoovaAAA Desktop is a desktop application version of the CoovaAAA management interface.
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So now i am totally confused what is the Coova Desktop Application for then?? I thought that was the way you did everything locally?
Help! :) Can someone explain.
ron
Re: Own install of CoovaAAA
I'm new here but I have to agree with other users regarding a "pure local installation" of CoovaAAA / Server.
Well, the entire "package" would be great but it depends on your conditions... price/support etc...
Are there any "thoughts" in such a direction? Anything?
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Same here ... I'd love to see a solution that we could house locally. We currently deal with Meraki's Dashboard, but the prospect of our network control vanishing or changing due a company's structure/philosophy change is not apealing at all.
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I think it would be really nice if the local users functionality can be expanded slightly. I would like to see the ability to enable/disable users, and an option to use just a single password to login, instead of the usual username/password combo.
Also, I don't know if you've seen the voucher system in m0n0wall. It can generate random passwords that can be handed out to users, and once a password is used for the first time, it expires after a fixed amount of time.
I am also doing community access in an area with slow and expensive Internet. If I could set up such an automated system I wouldn't need an external RADIUS server, and I could prevent people from hogging the bandwidth all day long for free.
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Yes, I can see your (and Rico's) point about needing something local. Are you looking for a small subset of specific features?
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Hi,
I see CoovaAAA is 'currently' a hosted solution only. Is this going to change? I'm deploying a local communication mesh network using openwrt in a remote community. The internet connection is slow and expensive.
I will require a tool to manage all the mesh nodes and each user's access to the network. Upon first glance, CoovaAAA looks like it can/will/could be extended to/ do exactly what I need.
Unfortunately like the Meraki dashboard and knock off netequality .net or open-mesh.com it seems to be available as a hosted service only.
Meraki does this because they take 20% of revenue collected from people signing on to the mesh network. It appears as if netequality/open-mesh.com are providing this service for free so I'm not sure what their angle is.
Like Rico2007 we need to host our own network management and authentication service locally. Is CoovaAAA going to be available, open source or commercially, for users to host themselves?
Thanks,
-C
Re: Own install of CoovaAAA
Yes, it is currently a hosted solution only. Yet, that doesn't mean you can't run your own RADIUS server and still benefit from some features and roaming capabilities of CoovaAAA.