Best Practices - maximum NAS entries in clients.conf

[Bruce Nunn]

If the network your APs are on is physically secure, and you don't need accounting for individual APs, you can use netmasks to define clients in the clients.conf file.



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From: "Sallee, Stephen (Jake)" <Jake.Sallee at umhb.edu>
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Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 9:04 AM
Subject: Best Practices - maximum NAS entries in clients.conf

@ everyone

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?

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?