[4029] in Kerberos
Re: I need comment on Kerberos vs. NetSP (IBM)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur Houle 904-487-8677)
Wed Oct 12 17:32:51 1994
Resent-From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@cam.ov.com>
Resent-To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 16:31:53 EST
From: Arthur Houle 904-487-8677 <HOULEA@mail.firn.edu>
In-Reply-To: <37h2it$pp9@panix2.panix.com>
To: "usenet@cam.ov.com" <usenet@cam.ov.com>
The need for PPP access is not trivial. With only a few dial up ports, we
expect to server hundreds of users. With many terminal servers, each with
20 ports we expect to serve thousands of users. Dynamic addressing server
our purposes well. There is nothing 'broken' with this concept that I know
of. Kerberos validates each user, who then is dynamically assigned an
address. After the session, the ticket is destroyed.
Static addressing would require a dedicated port for each user. We can't
afford to spend that much on our user community. Dial-up is a shared
facility for us.
Art
