Server Suggestion

[Alan DeKok]

"King, Michael" <MKing at bridgew.edu> wrote:
> We're going to be setting up a freeRADIUS server to service around 400
> simultaneous connections.  (500 AP's, 4000 users, about 400 online at
> once)  Accounting info would be on another different server.(Not part of
> FreeRADIUS)

  That's a pretty small system.

> What's a good server for this?  What's more important?  Memory or CPU?

  Cost.

  If the AP's are wireless, then CPU is more important, as EAP uses
SSL, which has a large CPU impact.

> I was thinking a dell poweredge 750, 2.8Ghz, 1Gig of RAM, 73G drive.

  64M of RAM & a 4G drive would be more than sufficient.

  Alan DeKok.