Decoupling RADIUS Auth/Acct and Moving Toward SQL-less Accounting

[Nathan Ward]

On 14 Jan 2026 at 1:27:15 AM, Erdal Emlik via Freeradius-Users <
freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org> wrote:

>
> It seems there might be no way to avoid using a database for IP
> management, and it might not even be logical to do so, but I wanted to hear
> your perspective on this.
>
> Looking forward to your thoughts.
>

Do you actually need dynamic addresses from a centralised pool?

Assuming you are in a modern broadband environment, assigning an address at
provisioning time is a lot easier, and very much worth considering.

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Nathan Ward