Best Practices - maximum NAS entries in clients.conf

[Alan DeKok]

Sallee, Stephen (Jake) wrote:
> We have about 100 NAS entries in our clients.conf file, it makes the file a bear to deal with but the server seems to handle it fine.  We will be expanding our infrastructure soon and the number of NAS entries will increase significantly.  At what point should we think about putting them into a database for FR to use?

  Whenever you get tired of managing them in clients.conf.

  The server has been tested with 500K clients in clients.conf.  It
takes a few seconds to start, and a gig or so of RAM, but it works.

> Also, I have seen some chatter on the list about dynamic NASs.  Am I correct in assuming that if we are using a DB instead of the clients.conf file we can add or remove clients simply by making changes to the correct table, all without having to restart FR?

  Yes.

  You can also do this with files.   See raddb/dynamic_clients in
2.1.12.  (When it comes out)

  Alan DeKok.