load balancing

Alan DeKok aland at ox.org
Thu Jun 16 19:54:58 CEST 2005


"Lucas Aimaretto" <lucas at cyneric.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to have freeradius as a proxy, but also, doing some
> load-balancing within N other freeradius-servers ?

  Read raddb/proxy.conf

> I've seen at freeradius.org that some used LinuxVirtualServer for doing
> this. But, I believe that, having a freeradius as proxy+load-balancer,
> it should have a better connection-handling. Am I wrong ?

  What do you mean by "better"?

  One RADIUS server can handle a lot of traffic.  But if you're
authenticating millions of users, a proxy+ load-balancer can be useful.

  Alan DeKok.



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