free radius behind a load balancer?

[Coy Hile]

> On Jan 14, 2021, at 10:43 AM, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 14, 2021, at 10:39 AM, Coy Hile <coy.hile at coyhile.com> wrote:
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>> Has anyone tried putting the FreeRADIUS server behind a load balancer? I see dynamic-clients does queries based on the Packet-Src-IP-Address, but can one reasonably do similar based on NAS-IP-Address (assuming that the client sends that attribute?
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>  Lots of people put it behind a load balancer.  The only real caveat is that if you're doing EAP, the load balancer has to be aware of that.  And then load balance on things like the User-Name, instead of randomly spamming packets across the back-ends.
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>  IIRC things like the F5 load balancers don't do that.  But FreeRADIUS as a load balancer will do that. :)

Work isn’t doing that, at all. We’re simply using RADIUS to authenticate and authorize administrative access to network devices. Nothing cute.


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