ippool management and cluster

[Alexandre Chapellon]

Alan DeKok a écrit :
> Alexandre Chapellon wrote:
>   
>> Is it possible to use the same sqlippool database for different
>> freeradius servers that belong to a "cluster?
>>     
>
>   Yes.  Just create an SQL cluster, and point the servers at the cluster.
>
>   
>> Is there drawback, doing this?
>>     
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>   It will be slower, and database replication may not happen quickly.
>
>   
>> Is there any chance to acheive consistante ip allocation in a cluster of
>> several freeradius using non sql ippool module?
>>     
>
>   The servers will have to communicate with each other before handing
> out IP addresses.
>   
Is it a featured in freeradius?
How does it work?

>   Or, split up the IP pool ranges so that each server has their "own"
> range that they prefer.  i.e. server 1 allocates from pool 1, and then
> pool 2 if pool 1 is full.  Server 2 allocates from pool 2, and then pool
> 1 if pool 2 is full.
>   

I thought about it but not managing a huge number of ippool (for
different type of users, differents huntgroups, and differents radius
servers) would be a great advantage of freeradius among other radius
server (I am comapring it with juniper SBR at the moment).

>   There are other, more complicated ways of doing the same thing.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
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