SMRadius is designed on the pre-forking principal allowing child processes to be pre-started and available for when requests come in

Database independent design: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite3

Replicated database support

Custom database queries allowing usage of returned results as macros

mod_auth_pap: PAP (RFC1334)

mod_auth_chap: CHAP (RFC1944)

mod_auth_mschap: MSCHAPv1 & MSCHAPv2, incl. MPPE (RFC2443, RFC2759, RFC2548, RFC3079)

Vendor specific attributes (RFC2865, RFC2866)

Supported attribute operators include =, :=, ==, +=, !=, >, >=, <, ⇐, =~, !~, =*, !*

Extended Radius Practices:

Packet of disconnect (RFC2882)

Service provider control panel, including WiSP customizations

Client control panel for viewing usage and plan details

Data & time based capping

Prepaid users

Topups

Account validity periods, including valid start and end dates

Prepaid accounting based on usage/time

Creation of accounting START records when no START record has been received but an interim update has - helps on slow/lossly links

Bandwidth multipliers that can be added to radius clients, user groups or users

Auto-Topups with customizable notification templates per client, realm, user group or user

Bootstrap WebUI with API and reseller/multi-tenant support

Plugin: Notifications, % based or approximate time based

Radius proxy - with filtering of requests/values … etc in both directions + adding items. Persistent storing of radius items so inbound from client NAS is stored and sent back with accounting packet.

Port 1700 proxy back to NAS.

Plugin: User blacklists

Plugin: Grouping of users and usage caps

Radius proxy - enhancement: round-robin & random proxy destination tries, easy backoff.

Backstore logs for if proxy destinations go down.

Redis support

E-commerce integration & API - very popular request

Database load balancing …. none of our largest clients have requested this, we talking 1 million users + …

IP Pools (in database)