EAP-TLS performance SQL backend bottleneck

[Alan DeKok]

leopold wrote:
>> The solution with a shell script that tests SQL server periodically and
>> kills/restart RADIUS daemon is not very neat. 
>> Also if polling interval is too low we might miss DB failure if too high
>> it will introduce unnessary load on DB

  Are you saying that:

   a) a one-second poll interval is too large?

   b) your DB can't handle one additional select per second?

  Really?  Honestly?

>> If you already have the capability not to respond, why it can't be used in
>> POST-AUTH?
>> Why you can't just check something like this?

  You have access to the source code.  If you want to hack it, go ahead.

  Alan DeKok.