** Designing multi-site RADIUS systems —————————————————————————————— Some organizations and ISPs can use a central RADIUS service for all of their RADIUS needs. This configuration is possible when there are a small number of users, or system load is low. However, when there are a large number of users spread across a wide geographic region, it may be beneficial to use a multi-site approach. As with all solutions, this approach has benefits and costs. ** Recommendation: Allocate more than one primary directory service instance —————————————————————————————— It is already common practice to set up a primary directory service instance at the main data center for storing usernames and passwords. Additional data centers will usually have a secondary instance of this identity store that is simply a “clone” of the primary. Any changes to user information are made on the primary instance, and then copied to all the secondary ones. Read the full article… https://networkradius.com/articles/2021/02/10/designing-RADIUS-multi-site-sy... ** Sign up to get this content directly --------------------------------------------- Want to get these articles in all their HTML glory? Sign up here: http://eepurl.com/hwuWrn <http://eepurl.com/hwuWrn> ** Need RADIUS help? --------------------------------------------- Get commercial support from the team behind FreeRADIUS. https://networkradius.com/contact/ <https://networkradius.com/contact/> ** What is the relationship between Network RADIUS and FreeRADIUS? ---------------------------------------------- FreeRADIUS is an open source implementation of the RADIUS protocol and was written by Alan DeKok in 1999. Network RADIUS is a private, for-profit company founded by Alan DeKok which provides commercial support for FreeRADIUS. The Network RADIUS team has been the primary contributor to FreeRADIUS for the last 20 years. The FreeRADIUS mailing list, wiki, and documentation are all moderated and maintained by the Network RADIUS team. FreeRADIUS has always been, and will always continue to be, open source. The Network RADIUS team provides commercial support to paying clients, and free product development for the FreeRADIUS community at large. All of our software development for FreeRADIUS is integrated into the Open Source platform, and will always continue to be.