Can FAQ 6.10 please be fixed?

[Alan DeKok]

Jens Dreger wrote:
> is simply no longer true. Checked the source: that option is gone. I
> really really think that option should be there, though.

  It's not only hard to do, it can cause problems.

  i.e. opening *double* the connections to your SQL server.  That may be
an issue.

> I know there
> is a shell script that starts a second server on a different port and
> waits to see if it starts successfully. But that's also broken since
> the -p Option doesn't seem to work in all cases:

  In CVS head and in 1.1.x, you need to do '-i' and '-p' together.

> Also, that approach is somewhat ridiculous considered the importance
> of the radius server in our case.

  Yes.  But please understand that this is *not* apache.  FreeRADIUS has
1% (or less) of the resources that the apache team has.  And, the
integration between RADIUS and databases is *much* stronger and more
important than Apache.

  i.e. Apache can handle HUP && reload it's configuration because it
doesn't *do* anything.  It doesn't cache connections.  It doesn't
maintain a large number of connections to databases, etc.  It can afford
to start up a completely brand new instance of itself from scratch,
because there are almost no side-effects to doing so.

  In contrast, FreeRADIUS has to keep packet caches.  It usually has
large numbers of connections to database, etc.

  You can update the script to add "-i 127.0.0.1" to it.  After that it
*should* work, so long as you don't have limits on the number of
database connections, etc.

> I tried to change the Wiki entry but apparently I don't have permission
> to do so.

  Sign up for an account.  It's not open because of the massive volume
of spammers who were attacking it.

> Can someone with write access to the Wiki please remove that
> entry (or better, add the -C option back to freeradius ;)

  As always, patches are welcome.

  Alan DeKok.