Thank you to all of you for comments,

Dusty, could you please provide complete URL for your "doc/ldap_howto.txt", I'd a look to http://www.freeradius.org/doc/ , but didn’t find it.

Carlo

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Da: freeradius-users-bounces+c.prestopino=waitalia.com@lists.freeradius.org [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+c.prestopino=waitalia.com@lists.freeradius.org] Per conto di Dusty Doris
Inviato: martedì 10 gennaio 2006 17.43
A: FreeRadius users mailing list
Oggetto: Re: openLDAP vs.mySQL

> The only statement that matters is whether you are familiar with

> either MySQL or LDAP. I don't agree with the other assertions about

> performance and distributed model of storage.

>

> The MySQL database of users can be replicated so each RADIUS server

> query a local slave database. There is no bottleneck on a single

> database. (exactly like in a LDAP setup)

>

> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/replication.html

>

> For example, the RADIUS servers on my site received yesterday 6 millions

> requests (auth + acct), and the servers were always under 5% of CPU

> usage. (Pentium 4 2.4GHz)

>

> So unless you have good reasons, I think you should keep the MySQL

> solution if it works for you.

>

> --

> Nicolas Baradakis

I agree with that.  I was previously stating what I liked about ldap.  The

most important thing though is being able to support it.

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