Hi, im running freeradius 1.0.5 + postgres 8.0.3 on a dual xeon, gentoo 2005.1, all is working ok, but i have another server with the same hardware specs that i recently "upgraded" from gentoo to freebsd 5.3, the server was running apache + postgres and, wow , great diference, better performance, so postgres definitely liked freebsd, what about freeradius?, i have read on the website that it is developed on debian but it compiles on freebsd, what is your experience with freebsd , good?, bad? , any gotchas?. Should i migrate to freebsd or stay with gentoo?, my personal preference is bsd, but im worried of any obscure future that only works on linux api's ,etc
Been using freeradius on freebsd exclusively for several years now. Started with freeradius .8 on freebsd 4.6 I think. Now, I'm running freeradius 1.0.5 on freebsd 5.4. We handle about 75,000 logins per day between 3 servers and are using openldap as a backend, which stores about 400,000 users. We use radrelay to push all the accounting into a mysql db. Its been working perfectly, no issues ever with freeradius or freebsd (can't say the same for harddrives and motherboards though - so you should build redundancy into your architecture). I'm going to write up our architecture one of these days and I'll submit a copy to freeradius, but I'm re-designing everything right now to keep recent, add more redundancy, and simply things. So I've been too busy. There is an old document of the original system I put in, in the doc folder called ldap_howto.txt. Anyway, I'd suggest installing freeradius from the freebsd ports tree since they've got the most recent version in there right now. The ports are just so easy to maintain. However, I do have it running on a few machines compiled from source before the ports tree was updated. Anyway, I'm on the list and read it often, so if you've got freebsd specific questions, feel free to ask. -Dusty Doris BTW this is fun to look at. Below is the last of our old systems, that I haven't replaced yet. Will be doing so in the next few weeks, though. I don't think I've ever touched them more than a few times and only to make config changes. They're just proxy radius servers and only get about 1000-2000 logins per day from some old systems and proxy everything over to our 3 real servers, but I still like the stats. [root@proxy-radius2:~] # radiusd -v radiusd: FreeRADIUS Version 0.8.1, for host i386-unknown-freebsd4.7, built on Mar 26 2003 at 14:36:24 [root@proxy-radius2:~] # w 1:03AM up 932 days, 15:06, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 [root@proxy-radius2:~] # uname -sr FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE ---- [root@proxy-radius1:~] # radiusd -v radiusd: FreeRADIUS Version 0.8.1, for host i386-unknown-freebsd4.8, built on May 13 2003 at 13:06:20 [root@proxy-radius1:~] # uname -sr FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE [root@proxy-radius1:~] # w 1:08AM up 903 days, 17:49, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT root p0 172.20.1.209 1:08AM - w