ippool management and cluster

[Alexandre Chapellon]

Alan DeKok a écrit :
> Alexandre Chapellon wrote:
>   
>>>   The servers will have to communicate with each other before handing
>>> out IP addresses.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Is it a featured in freeradius?
>>     
>
>   No.  That code would need to be written.
>
>   
>> I thought about it but not managing a huge number of ippool (for
>> different type of users, differents huntgroups, and differents radius
>> servers) would be a great advantage of freeradius among other radius
>> server (I am comapring it with juniper SBR at the moment).
>>     
>
>   I'm not sure *any* RADIUS server has this functionality.  It's usually
> done as part of the database replication, etc.
>   

Why enabling replication? Isn't it possible to have one centralized
database for all radius server?
>   The SQL IPPool module can run configurable queries.  This means you
> can populate IP pools on the SQL server based on *whatever* information
> you want.  The queries can then be edited to include key information
> like huntgroups, etc.
>
>   The queries can also be edited to be *different* on each server.  i.e.
> order forward by IP on one server, and the reverse on another server.
> If the databases are in an SQL cluster, this will minimize the
> possibility of problems.
>   
I think you missunderstood me. When I talk about cluster, i mean a farm
of radius servers reply to several NASes.

>   Alan DeKok.
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