Suggestions for a high-scalability

[Michael Schwartzkopff]

Am Mittwoch, 3. Juni 2015, 14:57:11 schrieb Jorge Pereira:
> Hi people,
> 
> Nowadays we have two instances of FreeRadius using the latest 3.0.8 that
> it's configured set to InstanceA and InstanceB and the NAS servers
> have configured each instance like a redundance/fail-over.
> 
> But it's expected more then 1 million of connections by day in the next
> month. And I would like to hear suggestions about what I can do to improve
> the services.
> 
> Advices and suggestions are welcome!
> --
> Jorge Pereira

Hi,

1 Mconnections/day is 11 connections/s in the average. Peaks should go up to 
several 100s conn/s. Please check if your setup (FR, database, accounting) can 
deal with this load. I have seen simple setups that can take some 100 conn/s.

So this should be not problem. But test it.

On the other hand: If you have several RADIUS servers, just put a loadbalancer 
before it (see: Linux Virtual Server and ldirectord or keepalive) and you will 
not have any problems.

Loadbalancers are really good when operating such a setup. Just phase out one 
server for maintenance.


Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Michael Schwartzkopff

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