Deploying Freeradius in a HA environment

[Michael Schwartzkopff]

Am Montag, 16. Juni 2008 10:09 schrieb Arran Cudbard-Bell:
> A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >> I would have to dispute that. We've seen NASes across the range (Cisco,
> >> 3Com, Extreme) fail to move to the backup/secondary radius server
> >> they've got configured.
> >
> > report such bugs to the manufacturers of the NAS devices and double
> > check your device configs -
> >  several of them have quirky ways of failing
> > over. if you do want to point to a single IP etc then just standard
> > L4 balancing will work

Load balancing and high availability can be easily accieved by using Linux 
Virtual Server (LVS) and Linux-HA (heartbeat). If you use the localhost 
feature of LVS this will even work with two machines.


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