load balancing radius with F5 devices

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Alex Sharaz <alex.sharaz at york.ac.uk> wrote:

> While we have 900 switches doing mac and 802.1x based auth, we can have
> 6000+ users on our wireless network all authenticating to RADIUS via 3 RAS
> clients. Looking at the back end server log files, it does look as if, in
> general,  all wireless RADIUS auths head for the same back end server.
>
> I was wondering if there's a way off having a bit more granularity in
> terms of how the f5 load balances incoming RADIUS requests.
>
>
Have you asked F5?

At the very least, common load balancers (e.g. "keepalived" on linux, a
frontend for ipvs) should have the option of distributing traffic to
backends based on source IP. Since you say you have 3 RAS clients, it
should work somewhat.

-- 
Fajar
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