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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">"Alan DeKok" <aland@nitros9.org> wrote:</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>> I have for the past 4 weeks been trying to evaluate if FreeRadius</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>> can be used as a AAA in an UMTS network with a large amount of</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>> subscribers for the GPRS Data services.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> I believe others are doing this today.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> FreeRADIUS scales very well. 10 million subscribers shouldn't be a</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>problem in a carefully designed system.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> Well, I'm wondering if this is in a clustered configuration i.e. multiple</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">nodes handling the load and cooperating (sharing data such as IP pools). If this</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">is the case I'd be interested to know a few accounts to find out more about</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">their architecture (behind freeradius such as database servers, etc). Any clues? I'd</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">really like o create some sort of standard architecture for freeradius that can scale</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">and is reliable and have it in a "real" environment for a while for others to have</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">confidence when making this same decision that I'm about to make.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>> I'm done for now more details will come later meanwhile I have a</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>> question: is the rlm_sqlippool module going to be part of a</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>> freeradius release in the near future and if not, what would it be</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>> the procedure to follow for it to happen?</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> An uopdated version of the module is in CVS head. If there's</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>interest, it could be back-ported to 1.1.x.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> I have compared my version with that of the CVS root and apart form some small</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">differences that I'll investigate further I noticed that it has the same bug that</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I found. The problem is that I don't know how to report it. Can you help? Also I</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">think it'd be a good idea to back-port it to 1.1.x. Who decides this and how do I</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">express my interest?</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> Thank you!</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="sv"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="sv"></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="sv"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> Cheers,</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="sv"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> Alejandro Robles.</FONT></SPAN>
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