On Tuesday, February 12, 2013, Muhammad Nadeem wrote:

thanks alan
Actually I am using load balancing for rapid authentication of users. let suppose i have one prosy server that is proxying incoming requests to these five servers. Theoratically the speed of authentication should be fast. But in case of mine it is too slow.

I have changed 'max_requests' in radiusd.config. And also remove unnecessary processing on radius server (that is proxying requests). Now tell me what else can I do?? :(

Though i am a new bee in RADIUS, but I think Proxy server is the bottle neck???

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:44 PM, <A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi,

> I am using Freeradius 2.2.0 on redhat 5. My goal was to increase the speed
> of user authentication. To achieve this I configured Load Balancing (with
> realms). I have a proxy Freeradius server, that is just proxying requests
> to 2 other freeradius servers.

you only asked this question less than 2 hours ago.....

okay, you need to see why the proxy is causing a x3 factor in slowdown? run the servers
in full debug mode with timestamps and check to see where your delay is....dont throw
10 million requests at it though, just a dozen should be enought in the first instance
to see where the hit is. I'd assume that you havent made any configuration changes
or tweaked any configs...in which case your proxy box is probably not ready to be dealing with
that many in transit requests (whereas the authentication servers can handle multiple
requests per thread) - so, some basic tweaking will probably do something....

..though I think you've already found that you dont need to load-balance ;-)

alan
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Muhammad Nadeem
Muhammad Ali Jinnah University