Freeradius ip allocation.

[Peter Nixon]

On Thu 23 Mar 2006 11:46, Phil Mayers wrote:
> Ashwin Gobind wrote:
> > Is it possible to use freeradius to dynamically allocate ip adrreses
> > from predefined pools.
> >
> > I want to assign an ip address from a specific set of pools, which pool
> > to use is to be determined by the NAS Identifier & the Called-Station-Id
> > of the AccessRequest.
>
> Yes. The module, strangely enough, is called "ippool", and is well
> documented by comments in the default config file.
>
> > Also to throw another complication in, these ip's should be consistent
> > over 3 radius servers that are load balanced.
>
> That's rather harder. You need shared backend storage. There is an
> sqlippool module in 1.1.0 (I think - certainly it's in CVS) though I
> recall there being some discussion about it being suboptimal (that may
> just be my suboptimal memory!) - check the archives.
>
> Obviously all radius servers would need to be talking to the same SQL
> server, though I guess you could use replication and failover to make
> that part resilient.

sqlippool works fine and can be load balanced. :-)

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