To proxy or not to proxy?

[Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu]

On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 00:53 +0100, Ivan Kalik wrote:
> > Is there a reason why I should consider using home servers and/or
> > proxies?  I guess I'm just trying to figure out if I'm shooting myself
> > in the foot by not using them.
> 
> To proxy accounting? Or are you going to replicate databases? You have to
> keep accounting data in sync somehow.

We're going to be provisioning/managing accounts with an external system
that will be updating the account data in the mysql database directly
(the external system will read the accounting info from the mysql db).
So, I was going to run mysql in a simple heartbeat+DRBD failover setup
in order to simplify integration with the external system.

buffered-sql should be to handle accounting during any failover (which
really should only take a couple of seconds anyway), or even if failover
itself fails.  I'm fairly confident in setting up a heartbeat+drbd mysql
configuration - no worries there either.

I know this complicates the overall freeradius deployment, but it's
unavoidable in our situation.

With that added bit of background info, is there still any reason why I
should consider using proxying or home servers?

Regards,

Ranbir

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