NAS list update without restarting radius server.

[Marinko Tarlac]

Well how many times per day do you add nases?

On Jan 23, 2008 10:20 AM, liran tal <liransgarage at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hey Alan,
>
> On Jan 23, 2008 9:47 AM, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
>
> > liran tal wrote:
> > > Maybe freeradius can read the nas list from sql at startup to some
> > > linked list and this list will be updated every given interval with a
> > query
> > > to the database.
> >
> >  It's more complicated than that.  The NASes need to be deleted, too.
> > And this has to be done without affecting normal server operation.
> >
> >  As always, patches are welcome.
> >
>
> Well, every given interval a query will run on the database server to get
> the
> list of nases and it will build a new linked list based on that and delete
> the other nodes and free the pointers of those.
>
> I guess that coming up with a method to check against each nas if it's
> there or not, and to remove or add it based on a check is do-able
> but would probably face some efficiency issues where-as I think it
> would be proper to create a new linked list with whatever nases that
> query returns and free the previous linked list from memory.
>
> I haven't had a look at the relevant code but it seems quite basic
> to implement unless I'm over-seeing some critical aspects :-)
>
> I'll be glad to take a look if you can refer me to the current piece
> of code where freeradius handles the nas lists read from the database
> and stores them.
>
>
> Regards,
> Liran Tal.
>
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