Proxying Eap Requests in round robbin

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Tue Mar 20 17:49:46 CET 2007


Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
> Damn, so theres no way to do load balancing with radius packets 
> containing EAP attributes ?

  As always, patches are welcome. :)

> Completely different topic, but is it normal for freeRADIUS to authorize 
> the user in each round of authentication ? Can it not cache the 
> credentials from the LDAP / SQL database ? Or is it doing that already 
> transparently?

  It's normal.  It's not caching the credentials.

  The problem is that it's difficult for the EAP module to say "now I
need authentication information".  So it's easier to just always query
the DB, even though it's inefficient.

  Alan DeKok.
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