LDAP redundancy at Freeradius 3.0.8

[Michael Ströder]

Alan DeKok wrote:
> On Jul 7, 2015, at 5:50 PM, Ing. Martin Samek <samekma1 at fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
>> I'm trying find out how to correctly configure LDAP server redundacy in Freeradius 3.0.8. I dig trough mailing list archive, found some configuration snippets, but configuration doesn't work for me.
> 
>   The first question is: what kind of redundancy do you want?
> 
>   Do you want to use the LDAP servers as databases, and let FreeRADIUS do the authentication?  Or do you want to pass the name/password to LDAP, and have the LDAP servers do the authentication?
> 
>   The answer for "how to correctly configure LDAP server redundancy" depends on the answer to those questions.

Frankly I don't understand.
Could you please elaborate on why that makes a difference?

Is it because sending bind requests to the LDAP server is a new separate
connection?

Ciao, Michael.

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