load balancing radius with F5 devices

[Alex Sharaz]

On 9 Oct 2013, at 10:16, Fajar A. Nugraha <list at fajar.net> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
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> Have you asked F5?
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> 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.
> 
You had a nose round the f5 site and subscribed to some of the communities. Shall we say that the response wasn't that great!
A

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