dumb humble question about sqlippool

[Guilherme Franco]

Thanks for all the answers Mr. Peter!

To clarify some things:

>> NONE of the ippool modules let you set the pool name. You HAVE to set
>> Pool-Name = whatever as a check item!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The radcheck table already have Pool-Name := "whatever" as a
attribute, op, value for all users, but that's ok because I can set it
manually in sqlippool.conf and the select DOES run in the correct
table then (xlat outputs correctly then and I did a network sniff that
shows the query is ok).

> Other issue is related to multiple pools, one with dynamic IP's and
> other with fixed ones (actually it's not possible to do that with only
> just one sqlippool.conf file without modifying rlm_sqlippool.c).

>> IT IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> Run two copies of the module!

Sorry, i meant that I think that it is not possible without loading 2
or more modules (just with one module and one sqlippool.conf) dumb
question, sorry.

> Another thing lies in proxy -> if the proxy returns IP 255.255.255.254
> for me, sqlippool does not overrides it and do nothing (it doesn't
> have the override = yes option like ippool).

>>This can be added. Although why would you return an IP like that when you dont
>>need to? Just return the Pool-Name and let the module do its job.

I didn't think about it, thanks.

Besides that I had to remove the BEGIN statement of allocate-begin
(and all other begins)  because oracle does not need it, and if you
need to specify begin, then it needs to be in a different way (through
the sniff, I saw that the begin was stated, then 4 "space" chars and
then a "/" which is the same as doing "BEGIN;    /" in sqlplus,
generating "ORA end-of-file errors") Don't know from where that "/"
came from thought. To solve this, I had to change "BEGIN" in
allocate-begin for "commit" (a normal oracle operation before any
query).

About the postgresql installation, I was thinking in installing it. I
will do that just to see it's behaviour, thanks.

THANKS A LOT AGAIN!

On 9/29/06, Peter Nixon <listuser at peternixon.net> wrote:
> On Fri 29 Sep 2006 01:02, Guilherme Franco wrote:
> > Thank you very much for your kindness.
> >
> > I'm sorry, again, for posting too much questions about this.
> >
> > It's correct that I'm trying to put this in production as this is the
> > only module that does not worked for me.
> >
> > I'm happy with dialup_admin, AAA and everything else in Oracle!
> >
> > The only missing thing is sqlippool :(
> >
> > I know that it is an experimental module and I also have limited time
> > to work on this module as it's not for me, it's for another company.
> >
> > In the mean time, I'm using regular ippool db in a NFS with just 1
> > radius active per time (to prevent lockups). That was the only way
> > I've managed to do ippools with 2 servers (is there any
> > alternatives?).
> >
> > As you see I can't abandon oracle, nor install postgre as it would
> > break up some dependencies with other oracle databases that we have.
> >
> > I'm being such a pain for you guys because the sqlippool module is
> > almost working! If I saw that it wouldn't work at all, I would never
> > took the time to work in it as I'm taking now :)
> >
> > I appreciate your concerns and as I'm out of time to deliver the
> > solution to the client, I think I can't try sqlippool anymore.
> >
> > That's a shame because I'm almost there!
> >
> > Now that I've managed to change somethings it's doing all the selects
> > without any errors (that return ie: ip 1.1.1.1 in sqlplus) but it's
> > stating sqlippool_query1: row[0] returned NULL in radiusd -X ( how can
> > it be null if the select was successful? ). It's the only $!*!@! thing
> > that is preventing the user to get an IP!! That kind of things just
> > take time to debug...
> >
> > Besides that, if I don't set pool_name = "name_of_the_pool" in
> > sqlippool.conf, allocate-find tries to select from "ippool" (wich does
> > not exists) instead of the one I've set in radippool table.
>
> I would double check this behaviour. It should not select at all if there is
> no pool-name.
>
> NONE of the ippool modules let you set the pool name. You HAVE to set
> Pool-Name = whatever as a check item!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
>
> > Other issue is related to multiple pools, one with dynamic IP's and
> > other with fixed ones (actually it's not possible to do that with only
> > just one sqlippool.conf file without modifying rlm_sqlippool.c).
>
> IT IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Run two copies of the module!
>
> > Another thing lies in proxy -> if the proxy returns IP 255.255.255.254
> > for me, sqlippool does not overrides it and do nothing (it doesn't
> > have the override = yes option like ippool).
>
> This can be added. Although why would you return an IP like that when you dont
> need to? Just return the Pool-Name and let the module do its job.
>
> > So, to close this out, I would REALLY LIKE to make this work and help
> > you guys  as well, but because of lack of time, the only way would do
> > this as an enhancement to the already deployed solution for the
> > client, thanks.
>
> Do you have sqlippool working with Postgresql?? it seems to me that you do not
> quite understand how it works which tells me that you dont have a working
> installation to compare with. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A WORKING INSTALLATION OF
> SQLIPPOOL ON POSTGRESQL DO THAT RIGHT NOW BEFORE DOING ANY MORE TESTING WITH
> ORACLE!!!!! PLEASE!!!
>
> Cheers
>
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