Optimal setup to handle large tps

2012-10-26 Thread Marius Booysen
Hi All, I was hoping for some advice from some of you: I have a requirement to deploy Freeradius to handle about 2M customers and of course I need to set up my environment optimally. I am aiming for about 1500 auths or accounting requests per second. 1.) Can Freeradius achieve that? Reading

Re: Optimal setup to handle large tps

2012-10-26 Thread Alan DeKok
Marius Booysen wrote: I have a requirement to deploy Freeradius to handle about 2M customers and of course I need to set up my environment optimally. I am aiming for about 1500 auths or accounting requests per second. That should be fine. 1.) Can Freeradius achieve that? Reading the

Optimal setup to handle large tps

2012-10-26 Thread Marius Booysen
Thanks Alan. 3.) I was thinking of going mysql, but in my mind accessing a DB *had* to be slower that accessing a dbm file ;) Anyway, thanks for the advice, I will test MySQL for sure. Kosie - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

Radperf unavailable?

2012-10-26 Thread Marius Booysen
Hi, I see that there is a problem downloading Radperf from networkradius.com. Does anybody know if it will become available once again at some point? Are there any other benchmarking utilities for Freeradius? Regards Kosie - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See

Re: Radperf unavailable?

2012-10-26 Thread Alan DeKok
Marius Booysen wrote: I see that there is a problem downloading Radperf from networkradius.com. Does anybody know if it will become available once again at some point? I'll try to get it back online in a few weeks. Are there any other benchmarking utilities for Freeradius? Most are

Re: Optimal setup to handle large tps

2012-10-26 Thread Alan DeKok
Marius Booysen wrote: 3.) I was thinking of going mysql, but in my mind accessing a DB *had* to be slower that accessing a dbm file ;) Not necessarily. Anyway, thanks for the advice, I will test MySQL for sure. Honestly, I'd use postgres. It's much better. Alan DeKok. - List

eap-peap gtc configuration

2012-10-26 Thread Nandkumar Palkar
Hi, What is the attribute used in eap-peap gtc login attempt with password attribute (i.e. Challenge = Password: )? Thanks, Nand. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

Ignoring too-frequent accounting packets from buggy NAS

2012-10-26 Thread Phil Mayers
All, We are having a problem with our Cisco lightweight wireless since a recent firmware upgrade. I am delving into it, and will probably open a TAC case, but in the meantime I need a solution. The specific issue is that the NAS is sending interim accounting very, very frequently, in

Re: eap-peap gtc configuration

2012-10-26 Thread Alan DeKok
Nandkumar Palkar wrote: What is the attribute used in eap-peap gtc login attempt with password attribute (i.e. Challenge = Password: )? Reply-Message Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

Re: Ignoring too-frequent accounting packets from buggy NAS

2012-10-26 Thread Alan DeKok
Phil Mayers wrote: Until I can get this fixed, can anyone think of an easy way to throw away interim accounting requests for a given key and time window? I'm wondering if rlm_cache can be made to do it? rlm_cache might help. Maybe Arran knows more. Alan DeKok. - List

Re: eap-peap gtc configuration

2012-10-26 Thread Nandkumar Palkar
Thanks! On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Alan DeKok al...@deployingradius.comwrote: Nandkumar Palkar wrote: What is the attribute used in eap-peap gtc login attempt with password attribute (i.e. Challenge = Password: )? Reply-Message Alan DeKok. - List

Re: Ignoring too-frequent accounting packets from buggy NAS

2012-10-26 Thread Arran Cudbard-Bell
On 26 Oct 2012, at 13:53, Phil Mayers p.may...@imperial.ac.uk wrote: All, We are having a problem with our Cisco lightweight wireless since a recent firmware upgrade. I am delving into it, and will probably open a TAC case, but in the meantime I need a solution. The specific issue is

Re: Ignoring too-frequent accounting packets from buggy NAS

2012-10-26 Thread Phil Mayers
On 26/10/12 14:20, Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote: It can, see wiki :) http://wiki.freeradius.org/modules/Rlm_cache In fact it documents your *exact* use case with config examples and everything. *twilight zone music* Ha spooky! N.B. I note the module comments might confuse people, since it

Re: Ignoring too-frequent accounting packets from buggy NAS

2012-10-26 Thread Arran Cudbard-Bell
On 26 Oct 2012, at 14:51, Phil Mayers p.may...@imperial.ac.uk wrote: On 26/10/12 14:20, Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote: It can, see wiki :) http://wiki.freeradius.org/modules/Rlm_cache In fact it documents your *exact* use case with config examples and everything. *twilight zone music*

Re: Optimal setup to handle large tps

2012-10-26 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Marius Booysen marius.booy...@eircom.net wrote: I have a requirement to deploy Freeradius to handle about 2M customers and of course I need to set up my environment optimally. I am aiming for about 1500 auths or accounting requests per second. 1.) Can

Re: Ignoring too-frequent accounting packets from buggy NAS

2012-10-26 Thread Phil Mayers
On 26/10/12 15:03, Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote: On 26 Oct 2012, at 14:51, Phil Mayers p.may...@imperial.ac.uk wrote: On 26/10/12 14:20, Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote: It can, see wiki :) http://wiki.freeradius.org/modules/Rlm_cache In fact it documents your *exact* use case with config examples