can you internally proxy a request more than once?

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Fri Mar 23 20:16:11 CET 2012


mark.leese at stfc.ac.uk wrote:
> I may not have provided enough detail, but am I doing something that
> obviously won’t work? I don’t know if it’s possible to internally proxy
> a request more than once, e.g. to two different virtual servers.

  It's not.  It will likely work (eventually) in 3.0.

  The 2.1 code base just isn't suitable for multiple proxying.

> If it
> isn’t possible, do I have any other options? Would a solution be to make
> the virtual servers listen on two different IP addresses, and configure
> the NAS to use a different RADIUS server IP address for each SSID?

  That works, too.

> Alternatively, could the NAS continue to send all RADIUS packets to one
> IP address, and the default server proxy to virtual servers listening on
> different IP addresses?

  That works, too.

  Alan DeKok.


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