FreeRadius to authenticate DHCP Requests with Option82

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Wed Feb 22 13:49:53 CET 2012


Marinko Tarlać wrote:
> Can you tell me something about performances?

  It all depends on the DB, because that's where IPs are stored.

  For a normal database, 1000 packets/s should be possible.

> I'm using Mtik as NAS for PPPoE users and 500-600 online users per
> server is optimum according to my experiences (Quad core server, 2GB
> RAM,...).

  Wow... that's a lot of CPU for a small number of users.

> ISC DHCP works very well for >6000 users and the same number of cable
> modems but I'm not sure is Mtik capable for something like that...
> 
> ISC problem is database integration which won't be added in the next 150
> years... :)

  Exactly.

  Alan DeKok.



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