EAP-TLS performance SQL backend bottleneck

Ivan Kalik tnt at kalik.net
Thu Sep 10 19:23:42 CEST 2009


> Can anyone recommend improving performance for EAP-TLS when using SQL
> backend?
> Currently we see around 11 message exchanges (10 Access-Challenge messages
> from the server) for each EAP-TLS authentication and each time client
> sends
> data, the server tries to fetch data from database which is bad.
> This results in huge number of database lookups that kill performance.
>
> What is recommended way to deal with such problem?

Upgrade, or revert to default configuration (which doesn't do that in
newer versions).

Ivan Kalik
Kalik Informatika ISP




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