Hi All, I'm going to have a fairly simple setup whereby two freeradius 2.1.6 servers will be configured as "primary" and "secondary" on the NAS. Each freeradius server will also be running mysql locally so that acct and auth will be handled on the same box. I'm going to use buffered-sql as well, just in case mysql goes down or has issues keeping up with updates. Based on what I've read and understood, it doesn't make much sense to me to use freeradius' proxy and home_server features in proxy.conf. I will have two realms, so I can configure those in proxy.conf. Other than that, I don't think I need any other feature (in proxy.conf). Is there a reason why I should consider using home servers and/or proxies? I guess I'm just trying to figure out if I'm shooting myself in the foot by not using them. Thanks, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 19:30:34 up 15 days, 20:40, 3 users, load average: 0.32, 0.13, 0.04
I'm going to have a fairly simple setup whereby two freeradius 2.1.6 servers will be configured as "primary" and "secondary" on the NAS. Each freeradius server will also be running mysql locally so that acct and auth will be handled on the same box. I'm going to use buffered-sql as well, just in case mysql goes down or has issues keeping up with updates.
Based on what I've read and understood, it doesn't make much sense to me to use freeradius' proxy and home_server features in proxy.conf. I will have two realms, so I can configure those in proxy.conf. Other than that, I don't think I need any other feature (in proxy.conf).
Is there a reason why I should consider using home servers and/or proxies? I guess I'm just trying to figure out if I'm shooting myself in the foot by not using them.
To proxy accounting? Or are you going to replicate databases? You have to keep accounting data in sync somehow. Ivan Kalik Kalik Informatika ISP
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 00:53 +0100, Ivan Kalik wrote:
Is there a reason why I should consider using home servers and/or proxies? I guess I'm just trying to figure out if I'm shooting myself in the foot by not using them.
To proxy accounting? Or are you going to replicate databases? You have to keep accounting data in sync somehow.
We're going to be provisioning/managing accounts with an external system that will be updating the account data in the mysql database directly (the external system will read the accounting info from the mysql db). So, I was going to run mysql in a simple heartbeat+DRBD failover setup in order to simplify integration with the external system. buffered-sql should be to handle accounting during any failover (which really should only take a couple of seconds anyway), or even if failover itself fails. I'm fairly confident in setting up a heartbeat+drbd mysql configuration - no worries there either. I know this complicates the overall freeradius deployment, but it's unavoidable in our situation. With that added bit of background info, is there still any reason why I should consider using proxying or home servers? Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 20:38:58 up 15 days, 21:48, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.04, 0.06
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