FreeRADIUS High Availability with AD Integration

Vinícius Ferrão vinicius at ferrao.eti.br
Mon Mar 30 23:35:25 CEST 2015


Thank you Alan. Considerations on the rest of the message:

> On Mar 30, 2015, at 6:00 PM, A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> I've a single FreeRADIUS 3 server integrated in a AD domain to provide 802.1x authentication over the air and in the Ethernet cable. It's working perfectly, but I would like to implement an High Availability feature.
> 
> okay.... you can either have multiple ntlm_auth's defined in multiple mschap modules and do the
> same way as mysql HA - with failover/error redundancy....or
> 
>> The question is how to do this? Just install another FreeRADIUS server independently and everything would be fine? 
> 
> ...use multiple RADIUS servers that are bound into the AD yes.

I will do this way. Two distinct FreeRADIUS Servers.

> 
> 
>> Since the supplicants can use two distinct RADIUS servers.
> 
> no. the NAS ca use multiple RADIUS servers - the supplicant in the OS hasnt a clue about anything. 
> and whilst you can use different RADIUS certs, dont. just use the same cert, signed by the same CA.

Sorry, I was referring to the NAS. I will use the Wildcard cert that we have from GlobalSign.

> 
> alan
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