global hash variable perl

[Vinh Nguyen]

I did very similar to your example before but it didn't do it.

I perl module name is .pl instead of .pm like yours

is it possible you can show me your radius.conf - related to perl section?

thanks.

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Alexander Clouter <alex at digriz.org.uk>wrote:

> Vinh Nguyen <vhn2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I don't think it will make a difference since the perl module is
> > instantiated for every request. Unless I mis-understood something.
> >
> It is instantiated only once in a mod_perl type of way.  If you want
> more instances, then you need to use threads (since instantiated once
> but freeradius will now run requests in parallel through your code,
> which might be:
>  a) dangerous unless you know about thread safe coding
>  b) un-neccessary as all you are doing is trying to build a 'hot cache'
>
> Stack your code so that you call your caching module to populate
> attributes if possible, then use unlang to test if the cache module did
> it's thing, if it did not ('notfound') then call rlm_sql from
> FreeRADIUS.  Do *not* do it in the perl module otherwise you will run
> into threading related bottlenecks.
>
> > Earlier I tried similar to what you suggested - without the {}. but it
> > didn't work.
> >
> I have no idea what is is meant to do, but it looks very wrong.
>
> I use rlm_perl for caching some attributes in the same session, feel
> free to borrow from my example:
>
> http://stuff.digriz.org.uk/cache_ldap-userdn.pm
>
> As a second hint that will help you on your quest:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
> http://search.cpan.org/~mceglows/Bloom-Filter-1.0/Filter.pm
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Alexander Clouter
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