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Acell-ppp Support in RADIUSdesk
Introduction
- As of November 2023 we have added the ability to centrally manage Accel-ppp running on Ubuntu or Raspberry Pi based devices.
- Simply install a lightweight agent that interacts with RADIUSdesk.
- Each device will then have the ability to be configured using a web applet in the central RADIUSdesk server.
- The agent will also report back to RADIUSdesk on the status of the service and any active sessions after it configured Acell-ppp based on the settings specified by RADIUSdesk.
- Consider the following graphic to show how everything fits together.
Accel-ppp Servers Applet
- The Accel-ppp Server applet can be found under the Other grouping.
- It has three sub tabs which we will discuss further here.
Profiles
- The Acell-ppp Servers applet was created to formulate the settings for instances of Accel-ppp.
- The settings for each Acell-ppp server can be divided into three categories.
- Common settings which hardly differ between servers. (This is the bulk of them)
- Unique settings which you might want to tweak should the need arise.
- Specific settings which are required to differentiate one Acell-ppp server from the other.
Common Settings (Base Configs)
- Common settings are stored inside a CakePHP config file. (/var/www/rdcore/cake4/rd_cake/config/AccelPresets.php)
- One can define various sets of these common settings, giving each a unique name.
- We refer to them as Base Configs.
- There is one already called Default.
- The keys of these configs maps to sections of the /etc/accel-ppp.conf file.
- Should you wish to add or modify these configs; it can be done by editing /var/www/rdcore/cake4/rd_cake/config/AccelPresets.php.
- The various configs will then appear as a select-able Base Config list when managing profiles.
- When one select a Base Config from the list; the values in the GUI are populated from the selected Base Config.
- You can then edit those populated values so they are unique to the profile you are managing.
- See screenshot below.
Unique Settings (Profiles)
- Profiles allow you to override certain values which were specified in the Base Config so that they become unique to a certain profile.
- These include items which might need tweaking for certain environments.
- Each of the sections inside the GUI maps to a section in the /etc/accel-ppp.conf file.
Specific Settings (Server)
- This is the final category and one that is specific to an Accel-ppp server in the applet.
- An Accel-ppp server needs a mandatory Profile (Unique settings) and then two items we specify as specific.
- Interface This is the interface name on the server where we want to run the PPPoE servie on.
- NAS Identifier This is the specific identifier which are used to identify the Accel-ppp server on RADIUS.
