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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT-BR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear friends,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I searched list archive, but I couldn’t find anything about this. I need to correctly design and deploy a brand new FreeRADIUS server. It will receive about 25.000 simultaneous users, so I’m planning to have, at least, two servers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>My questions are:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>What would be recommended server hardware (memory, disk, CPU, …) and software (Linux distribution, kernel version, …)?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>How could I synchronize both servers’ users? I mean, in the beginning, I’d have two separate /etc/shadow files but this is not scalable. I need to share a single file between both servers. Is it possible? How?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Any recommendations to the backup policy?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:PT-BR'>Maurício Harley</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:PT-BR'> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:PT-BR'>Suporte Técnico</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:PT-BR'> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:PT-BR'>Cisco IP Phone: +55 (85) 3133-7910</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:PT-BR'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:PT-BR'>Auriga Tecnologia & Negócios</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:PT-BR'> <br> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:PT-BR'>Cisco</span><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:PT-BR'> </span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:PT-BR'>SILVER</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:PT-BR'> Certified Partner</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:PT-BR'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:PT-BR'><br><b>IBM</b> Business Partner</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:PT-BR'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>