opening sockets in modules

[Doug Hardie]

On Mar 28, 2006, at 22:08, radhika putty wrote:

> Hi..
>
> Are we allowed to open sockets inside a module and communicate with  
> other programs. If not then how else can we communicate with other  
> network programs..

I can't see why not.  I have one module that I tested that used pipes  
to move the actual updating of a sql database outside the radius  
server.  It worked just fine.  The performance improvement wasn't  
enough to justify doing that on a production server though.