Timeline for Another "why is this off-topic?" AWITOT? :-p
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:14 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Sep 15, 2016 at 1:28 | comment | added | tudor -Reinstate Monica- | @Anubioz Thanks. I really appreciate the effort. I keep a log of my google results and it appears that the results that appear now are different to when the question was raised, so thanks for pointing that out. :-) | |
| Sep 14, 2016 at 18:18 | comment | added | Anubioz | I spent 20 minutes and found LOTS of Diameter implementations with full GUI management. Here is just a few examples. Maybe you need to upgrade your googling skills or something... | |
| Aug 28, 2016 at 15:02 | comment | added | Ryan Babchishin |
Are there any UI's...? Could in some cases be answered with: Yes, it comes with one if you download the source distribution and look under the contrib directory. It's not packaged in the binary distribution.. Or Yes, but just the CLI. They intentionally didn't implement a GUI or anything due to issue xxx, see doc xxx explaining the reasoning. Oh, you didn't know there was a CLI? It's used like so:... or documented here....
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| Aug 26, 2016 at 6:09 | vote | accept | tudor -Reinstate Monica- | ||
| Aug 26, 2016 at 4:19 | answer | added | wombleMod | timeline score: 11 | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 2:27 | comment | added | user143703 | I agree that it's not easy for some people to understand what that boundary is simply by reading the rules. IMO, if you haven't chosen what software you're using yet and taken a stab at implementing it, it's not appropriate here. Your question is one of the rarer ones where research has actually happened (if unsuccessfully). I guess I don't see where the confusion is. If you have a problem and are looking for what tool to use to solve it.. It's off-topic. If you were configuring a tool that uses diameter and had issues, that would probably be on topic. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 0:36 | comment | added | tudor -Reinstate Monica- | Ok, Thanks everyone for the clarification/validation. :-D As an aside, the technical problem I have is a generalised flexible security model which RADIUS doesn't offer, so I saw it as appropriate here, but I must be misunderstanding where that boundary is, too. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 0:34 | comment | added | user143703 | IMO, it's a good answer that should be on the web somewhere, but I don't see how it's relevant to serverfault. It's related to the our field of work, absolutely but it's totally unrelated to what sort of content I expect to see on serverfault which is trying to solve technical problems. This doesn't. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 0:31 | comment | added | tudor -Reinstate Monica- | @EEAA, fair enough. Thanks. Now why can't that be an answer? At least that way I wouldn't have been made to feel stupid, alone, and misunderstood. "Some technologies (although marketed as successors or 'better' fail to gain traction for whatever reason. So there may not be the tool you describe. Maybe you can build it, but the people who use RADIUS appear not to see a significant need to migrate to this technology, resulting in a lack of tools." | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 0:30 | comment | added | EEAA Mod | @tudor Reasons: 1) little if any utility above the incumbent technologies 2) ...leading to lack of adoption 3) ...leading to stagnated development 4) ...leading to lack of useful information. This thing happens all of the time with projects. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 0:26 | comment | added | user143703 | I meant the skirt the rules only in regards to 'are there any..' vs 'can you recommend..'. Not the original question. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 0:25 | comment | added | tudor -Reinstate Monica- | @yoonix, no attempt to skirt the rules here. I just can't understand why there's so little information (or questions) on a supposedly-well-used 13-year-old protocol. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 0:24 | comment | added | tudor -Reinstate Monica- | @EEAA, yes, and that's why I'm asking the question. My question also contains "is everyone choosing not to use it for a reason?" (Again, non-specific) It's been 13 years since its creation and 4 years since the last revision. I find it hard to believe that people would be avoiding it without reasoning. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 0:24 | comment | added | user143703 | Right, you're trying to play word games to skirt rules. The rules are guidelines. If you're trying to get just past the line to qualify, you're probably off-topic. 'Are there any?' is an entirely useless question as 'Yes' or 'no' are not going to be helpful. It's simply rephrasing to achieve the same result. I don't care what words are used, if you're looking for someone to name off products as the answer, you're off-topic. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 0:22 | comment | added | EEAA Mod | Something to think about: if you've really spent as much time as you have researching and implementing this, and you haven't managed to discover even how one is supposed to admin the thing, perhaps you put the cart a few miles before the horse? There's a really good reason that radius is still in very heavy usage. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 0:22 | comment | added | jscott | FWIW, there's a dedicated Stack site for software recommendations: Software Recommendations. I am not a member of that community, so I would strongly recommend their tour to ascertain your question belongs there. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 0:20 | comment | added | tudor -Reinstate Monica- | But I'm not. "Are there any..." is not the same as "Can you recommend..." As I keep saying, I have googled and no products come up, so my question is binary or I'm misunderstanding something. Like, is Diameter administrated only through configuration, maybe? | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 0:18 | history | migrated | from serverfault.com (revisions) | ||
| Aug 26, 2016 at 0:17 | comment | added | tudor -Reinstate Monica- | Ooops! (And other words.) Sorry. I thought I was on meta. I did click the meta button! | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 0:16 | comment | added | user143703 | I would consider it off-topic, because no matter the amount of effort you put into it, it's still looking for a product recommendation, just disguised with different words. If the only answers to a question are the names of products, you're looking for a product recommendation no matter how you phrase it. Also, I don't see why your level of effort into researching matters here one bit. Lastly, this question is entirely off-topic. This is what meta is for. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 0:11 | history | asked | tudor -Reinstate Monica- | CC BY-SA 3.0 |