ippool management and cluster

[Alan DeKok]

Alexandre Chapellon wrote:
>>   The servers will have to communicate with each other before handing
>> out IP addresses.
>>   
> Is it a featured in freeradius?

  No.  That code would need to be written.

> 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).

  I'm not sure *any* RADIUS server has this functionality.  It's usually
done as part of the database replication, etc.

  The SQL IPPool module can run configurable queries.  This means you
can populate IP pools on the SQL server based on *whatever* information
you want.  The queries can then be edited to include key information
like huntgroups, etc.

  The queries can also be edited to be *different* on each server.  i.e.
order forward by IP on one server, and the reverse on another server.
If the databases are in an SQL cluster, this will minimize the
possibility of problems.

  Alan DeKok.