Unix domain socket support for authentication and accounting?

[Alan DeKok]

> On May 2, 2022, at 4:08 PM, William Tang <galaxyking0419 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.

  RADIUS systems usually get ~2K packets/s.  There will be no appreciable difference between UDP, TCP, or unix domain sockets.

> Whether freeradius should implement this is out of the scope of this
> discussion.  I'm just checking if it supports it.

  There is no secret documentation.  All of the features are public, and publicly documented.

  I must admit I don't understand the reasons for asking for a feature which has no use-cases, which no one implements, and which doesn't add anything useful.

  Alan DeKok.