Freeradius Clustering for HA

[Leandro]

Thanks for your advice Michael!!!
Leandro.


On 02/06/15 16:14, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 2. Juni 2015, 16:08:15 schrieb Leandro:
>> Hi  Freeradius users , Im planning to move my Radius service to a
>> virtualized enviroment so I can create a server cluster.
>> Is there any official / unofficial documentation about freeradius
>> clustering for HA to start reading ?
>> Maybe some feature for primary and secondary radius support or F5 load
>> balancer integration, etc.
>> Regards,
>> Leandro.
> Basically building a HA cluster of RADIUS servers is a bad idea. The protocol
> supports the use of multiple RADIUS servers. So there is no need for HA. HA
> causes a lot of pain if you want to do it really right.
>
> Set up two (or more) radius servers and configure both IP addresses in your
> RADIUS clients.
>
> If you really need a load balancer, it still is no HA cluster. Just set up two
> (or more) RADIUS servers and hode them behind a virtual IP address of the load
> balancer.
>
>
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
>
> Michael Schwartzkopff
>
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