Bandwidth & Hardware Requirement Question

[Igor Smitran]

Bandwidth is needed on your router. Between your router and your radius
server you will only have authentication and accounting packets which
are small and do not consume much of a bandwidth.
Radius server will not do any rate limiting, radius server will only
send rate limit data to router, during authentication, if you tell him to.
You can use desktop computer (P4 for example) for radius server. You can
have sql server on separate lan/computer. or not, it's up to you.
You can authenticate thousands of users on one pentium 4, with basic setup.

Deepak wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have done basic setup of freeradius and tested in my old PC (PIII).
> Now I want to do the real thing but I need some estimation regarding
> this. Can somebody share their knowledge on this?
>
> What is the bandwidth requirement for dedicated radius service based
> on numbers of user or hotspots. Yes I know more the better and more
> users mean more bandwidth but is there a rough formula for this?
>
> X users = Y bandwidth (roughly)
>
> Besides what kind of hardware (can I use desktop computers for this
> purpose), minimum memory?
> Can I use the radius and mysql in same server or run separate in same
> LAN? (recommendation)
>
> Also I need a rough estimate on how many users can be handled by one
> server with certain hardware+memory ideally.
>
> Some expert advice is greatly appreciated
>
> Thanks
>
>