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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>I’m looking at implementing freeradius w/MySQL for auth & accounting with a single master database and multiple (initially two) radius servers (slaves).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>The idea is that the slaves will run freeradius and the master will be integrated with the billing system.<br>The slaves can download an exact copy of the masters radcheck & radreply tables at frequent intervals. – That bit is easy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>The difficulty arises when trying to run a distributed session table and also trying to implement some sort of replication so the slaves can push their radacct table back up to the master while avoiding PK conflicts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>I’m considering one of the two solutions<br><br>1) Make the ID column in both the session table and radacct a NEWID / GUID / statistical key<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>or <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>2) Add a SlaveID int column to both tables and use a joint ID,SlaveID Primary Key.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Does anyone have any experience with either or does anyone have any thoughts on the matter?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif"'>Regards,</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Freestyle Script"'>Ryan Williams</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>