Livingston Enterprises, Inc. was a computer networking company.

History

Livingston was founded in 1986. It was involved in a legal case against

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Acquisition by Lucent

The company was acquired by

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in 1997.

Products

RADIUS

Livingston was the original author of the

RADIUS In classical geometry, a radius (: radii or radiuses) of a circle or sphere is any of the line segments from its Centre (geometry), center to its perimeter, and in more modern usage, it is also their length. The radius of a regular polygon is th ...

standard for authentication. The open source FreeRADIUS implementation that is being developed since 1999 has a syntax that is similar to the original Livingston implementation. In 1998, it released the RADIUS Accounting Billing Manager software.

PortMaster

The first product released in 1990 was the PortMaster Communications Server. In 1995, the PortMaster Office Router was licensed to

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, which formed their 1020 Dial-on-Demand Asynchronous Router. In 1996, Livingston introduced the

allowlist A whitelist or allowlist is a list or register of entities that are being provided a particular privilege, service, mobility, access or recognition. Entities on the list will be accepted, approved and/or recognized. Whitelisting is the reverse of ...

-based

internet filter An Internet filter is software that restricts or controls the content an Internet user is capable to access, especially when utilized to restrict material delivered over the Internet via the Web, Email, or other means. Such restrictions can be appl ...

ChoiceNet, which could be used on PortMaster products. The PortMaster 4 was comparable to the

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MAX series.

References

External links

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