Forwarding accounting Data to another radius Server for HA

[Daren Hendricks]

Hi,

Yes I have called 'replicate' in accounting section and it is after the
'Replicate-To-Realm:= acc_realm' section.

Regards,


On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha <list at fajar.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Daren Hendricks <daren.hendricks at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thank you,I have looked into using rlm_replicate but I do not seem to be
>> coming right. Below is what's in proxy.conf
>>
>>
>> home_server rad01 {
>>         type = acct
>>         ipaddr = 192.168.25.126
>>         port = 1813
>>         secret = testing123
>> }
>>
>> home_server_pool otp0 {
>>         home_server = otp1
>>         home_server = rad01
>> }
>> home_server_pool acc1 {
>>         home_server = rad01
>>
>> }
>> realm acc_realm {
>>         act_pool = acc1
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>
> ... and did you call "replicate" on your accounting section?
> Did you set Replicate-To-Realm before calling "replicate"?
>
> See
> https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/blob/v2.x.x/raddb/modules/replicate
>
> --
> Fajar
>
>
>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha <list at fajar.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Daren Hendricks <
>>> daren.hendricks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>
>>>> We have 2 radius servers (v2.2.1) a primary and secondary. Currently
>>>> both use same mysql database that lives on the primary server. For HA sake
>>>> we would like to have the following setup. The primary server will
>>>> read/write to it's radius DB and that will be replicated using mysql
>>>> replication to the secondary server. The secondary server will then
>>>> read/write to the replicated db and forward/proxy it's accounting data to
>>>> the primary server.
>>>> Does this sound like a feasible solution?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No.
>>>
>>> You should either:
>>> - replicate the packets at radius level, and have each radius write
>>> (both packets that it received directly and the forward packets) to its own
>>> db. OR
>>> - use active-active db replication (e.g. galera)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Also, what can we use to forward the accounting data to the primary
>>>> server, would robust-proxy-accounting be something worth looking into?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Depends on your need. robust-proxy-accounting should work, but on some
>>> setup it might end up filling the disk (e.g. when bad home server rejects
>>> some packets).
>>>
>>> Personally I prefer rlm_replicate, which is very fast but might lose
>>> some accounting packets due to it's send-and-forget menchanism (I'm fine
>>> with that).
>>>
>>> --
>>> Fajar
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