[EXTERNAL] Understanding FreeRADIUS statistics

[Alan DeKok]

On Jun 25, 2024, at 8:53 AM, dominic.stalder at unibe.ch wrote:
> Thanks a lot, great point; did not know, that we have enabled caching until you mentioned it now! I took over the old FreeRADIUS 3.0 configuration from a former University member and this part was completely "ignored" by me. Just checked the mods-enabled folder and voilà:
> 
> /etc/freeradius/mods-enabled/cache_eap

  That works, but I suggest using it with care.  99.9% of the time there's no proxy fail-over, so the caching is just extra work.

  If caching makes a large difference, then the network is unstable enough that it needs fixing.

> You see, new to this as well. Can I see cached "authentications" in the logs or can I enable the logging for those (/etc/freeradius/mods-enabled/linelog) somehow?

  You'll have to write policies to log the cached packets.

  But I'd suggest not doing this.

  Alan DeKok.