a few questions

[Paul Bartell]

just by the way. Im wondering what a big implementation would be. If
6000 machines is not a lot, then what is really?

On Nov 24, 2007 11:41 PM, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
> Paul Bartell wrote:
> > Im working on a project at my school district to implement RADIUS
> > authentication. I have two Mac powerpc servers for use, which could
> > run either OSX or some linux variant. We are planning on using a mysql
> > backend. Our network has around 6k machines throughout the district, a
> > few hundred on the wifi at any given time. so my questions are:
>
>   That is a very small number of systems.  A 386 would probably be
> sufficient to handle the RADIUS traffic.
>
> > 1. since mysql in OSX isn't kernel based from what i understand, would
> > it make a big difference to use a linux based os (debian/unofficial
> > powerpc port of ubuntu is my initial thought)?
>
>   Why does that matter?
>
> > 2. Are both servers needed, and if so would it make sense to use mysql
> > replication and just have two of the same?
>
>   Both servers would be needed only for fail-over, in case one died for
> some reason.  If you just look at the RADIUS traffic, you could run one
> server, with MySQL on the same machine, and the machine would be 99% idle.
>
> > 3. Would it make sense to just point some Ap's at one RADIUS server
> > and some at the other, or is there a better/easier way to load
> > balance?
>
>   If you use two machines, yes, that can be a good way to load balance.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
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