Unix domain socket support for authentication and accounting?

[William Tang]

> I dont' believe so.  And my numbers are as good as yours.
> There is no reason to believe that's true.
Unix domain sockets can achieve 66% latency reduction and 7x throughput,
https://stackoverflow.com/a/29436429.

>  I agree with Bjorn here.  There's no value to this, and many negatives.
> Are there any RFC documenting RADIUS over unix domain sockets?  Are
> there any clients supporting this?  Does your strongswan server support
> it?
Whether freeradius should implement this is out of the scope of this
discussion.  I'm just checking if it supports it.

On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 4:30 PM Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:

> On May 2, 2022, at 3:57 AM, William Tang <galaxyking0419 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I can’t realize a use-case for that… but, if you don’t mind please share
> > with us what you have in mind…
> > I have a server running both strongswan VPN server and freeradius for
> > authentication and accounting.  Unix domain sockets would be more
> efficient
> > for communication between processes on the same machine.
>
>   There is no reason to believe that's true.
>
>   I agree with Bjorn here.  There's no value to this, and many negatives.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
>
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