Run 2 FreeRadius simultanously

Alan Dekok aland at deployingradius.com
Thu Jun 14 14:34:15 CEST 2007


Phil Mayers wrote:
> Running redundant servers doesn't help much in this case for 2 reasons: 
> first, we've found that Cisco APs are very, very poor at detecting dead 
> radius servers and moving to the backup; second, it seems to be 
> malformed data coming from a certain client so if the APs do failover, 
> the 2nd server hangs up in short order.

  That's not nice...

> Additionally there are certain configurations that are easy to do 
> individually, but very difficult to combine; though the config unlang in 
> 2.0 should resolve most of the cases I have in mind

  Another thing for 2.0.0 (maybe) is to have per-socket configuration.
i.e. socket X can have authorization section X, and socket Y can have
authorization section Y.

  It may not be too hard to add, in fact.  And it would be extremely useful.

  Alan DeKok.
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