load balancing radius with F5 devices

2013-10-09 Thread Alex Sharaz
Hi, Is anyone out there load balancing RADIUS with an F5 load balancer? We're doing it here, but I can't help thinking that the actual load balancing algorithm need some tweaking. As far as I'm aware ( systems section support the F5 boxes) 1). We're using round robin to spread the load over

Re: load balancing radius with F5 devices

2013-10-09 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Alex Sharaz alex.sha...@york.ac.uk wrote: While we have 900 switches doing mac and 802.1x based auth, we can have 6000+ users on our wireless network all authenticating to RADIUS via 3 RAS clients. Looking at the back end server log files, it does look as if, in

Re: load balancing radius with F5 devices

2013-10-09 Thread Michael Schwartzkopff
Am Mittwoch, 9. Oktober 2013, 09:41:19 schrieb Alex Sharaz: Hi, Is anyone out there load balancing RADIUS with an F5 load balancer? We're doing it here, but I can't help thinking that the actual load balancing algorithm need some tweaking. As far as I'm aware ( systems section support

Re: load balancing radius with F5 devices

2013-10-09 Thread Olivier Beytrison
On 09.10.2013 10:41, Alex Sharaz wrote: Hi, Is anyone out there load balancing RADIUS with an F5 load balancer? We're doing it here, but I can't help thinking that the actual load balancing algorithm need some tweaking. I have f5 loadbalancers but atm I don't use them for our RADIUS

Re: load balancing radius with F5 devices

2013-10-09 Thread Alex Sharaz
On 9 Oct 2013, at 10:16, Fajar A. Nugraha l...@fajar.net wrote: On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Alex Sharaz alex.sha...@york.ac.uk wrote: While we have 900 switches doing mac and 802.1x based auth, we can have 6000+ users on our wireless network all authenticating to RADIUS via 3 RAS

Re: load balancing radius with F5 devices

2013-10-09 Thread Olivier Beytrison
On 09.10.2013 11:25, Olivier Beytrison wrote: On 09.10.2013 10:41, Alex Sharaz wrote: I was wondering if there's a way off having a bit more granularity in terms of how the f5 load balances incoming RADIUS requests. Another nice thing to do is to do persistence based on radius AVP

RE: load balancing radius with F5 devices

2013-10-09 Thread Vincent, Fabien
...@lists.freeradius.org] De la part de Michael Schwartzkopff Envoyé : mercredi 9 octobre 2013 11:17 À : FreeRadius users mailing list Objet : Re: load balancing radius with F5 devices Am Mittwoch, 9. Oktober 2013, 09:41:19 schrieb Alex Sharaz: Hi, Is anyone out there load balancing RADIUS with an F5 load balancer

Re: load balancing radius with F5 devices

2013-10-09 Thread Alex Sharaz
Many thanks for this Olivier, much appreciated Rgds A On 9 Oct 2013, at 11:07, Olivier Beytrison oliv...@heliosnet.org wrote: On 09.10.2013 11:25, Olivier Beytrison wrote: On 09.10.2013 10:41, Alex Sharaz wrote: I was wondering if there's a way off having a bit more granularity in terms of

Re: Load Balancing

2013-02-13 Thread Muhammad Nadeem
thanx john: yes i can run many instances of radclient. But i want on instance of radclient, that can send parallel requests to radius server. On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Johan Meiring jmeir...@pcservices.co.zawrote: On 2013/02/12 04:45 PM, Alan DeKok wrote: I tried to use Rad Client

Re: Load Balancing

2013-02-13 Thread Johan Meiring
On 2013/02/12 04:45 PM, Alan DeKok wrote: I tried to use Rad Client to send requests in Parallel, but i wasn't succeed. Could you please help me out to send parallel requests to proxy server??? Am I missing something, or can you not simply run more than once instance of radclient on more

Re: Load Balancing

2013-02-13 Thread Olivier Beytrison
On 13.02.2013 09:03, Muhammad Nadeem wrote: thanx john: yes i can run many instances of radclient. But i want on instance of radclient, that can send parallel requests to radius server. simply use echo User-Name=001AAD3F8165, NAS-IP-Address=10.192.100.4|radclient -p 100 -c 1

Re: Load Balancing

2013-02-13 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Muhammad Nadeem mnadeem8...@gmail.com wrote: for load testing. But when i use this with -p (to send requests in parallel), it only send one packet. here is the command out put [root@billing ~]# echo User-Name=001AAD3F8165, NAS-IP-Address=10.192.100.4|radclient

Re: Load Balancing

2013-02-13 Thread Muhammad Nadeem
I used -c 1, and omit -p,, result was the same . 1 users were authenticated in 23 seconds :) . So i think no difference of using -p and -c together ?? M I right?? On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Muhammad Nadeem mnadeem8...@gmail.comwrote: will it send 1 parallel requests to

Re: Load Balancing

2013-02-13 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Muhammad Nadeem mnadeem8...@gmail.com wrote: Could you please help me out to send parallel requests to proxy server??? Try radclient (see -p): http://linux.die.net/man/1/radclient Alternatively, try radperf: http://networkradius.com/radperf.html -- Fajar -

Re: Load Balancing

2013-02-13 Thread Muhammad Nadeem
will it send 1 parallel requests to free radius server why not simply use -c 1, instead of -p 100 -c 1. What will be the difference??? Thanks On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Olivier Beytrison oliv...@heliosnet.orgwrote: On 13.02.2013 09:03, Muhammad Nadeem wrote: thanx john:

Re: Load Balancing

2013-02-13 Thread Olivier Beytrison
On 13.02.2013 09:38, Muhammad Nadeem wrote: I used -c 1, and omit -p,, result was the same . 1 users were authenticated in 23 seconds :) . So i think no difference of using -p and -c together ?? M I right?? Well yeah -p works only with a file (-f) so, feed your request multiple

Re: Load Balancing

2013-02-13 Thread Muhammad Nadeem
Athanx Fajar Actually Rad perf is not available on website. And i also used -p with radclient. But it didnot sent requests in parallel. On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha l...@fajar.net wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Muhammad Nadeem mnadeem8...@gmail.com wrote: Could

Re: Load Balancing

2013-02-13 Thread Muhammad Nadeem
ok, I followed your process. i make a file with User-Name and NAS-IP-Address attribute. and issue the following command radclient -c 10 -p 1000 -f radrequest.txt 192.168.0.112 auth testing123 But i only receive 10 access-accept packets. So what does it mean?? If upper command issues 1000 requests

Re: Load Balancing

2013-02-13 Thread Olivier Beytrison
On 13.02.2013 11:45, Muhammad Nadeem wrote: ok, I followed your process. i make a file with User-Name and NAS-IP-Address attribute. and issue the following command radclient -c 10 -p 1000 -f radrequest.txt 192.168.0.112 auth testing123 But i only receive 10 access-accept packets. So what does

Re: Load Balancing

2013-02-13 Thread Muhammad Nadeem
thanks a lot olivier... This stuff really worked for me.. cheers On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Olivier Beytrison oliv...@heliosnet.orgwrote: On 13.02.2013 11:45, Muhammad Nadeem wrote: ok, I followed your process. i make a file with User-Name and NAS-IP-Address attribute. and issue the

Re: Load Balancing Issue

2013-02-12 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, I am using Freeradius 2.2.0 on redhat 5. My goal was to increase the speed of user authentication. To achieve this I configured Load Balancing (with realms). I have a proxy Freeradius server, that is just proxying requests to 2 other freeradius servers. you only asked

Re: Load Balancing Issue

2013-02-12 Thread Muhammad Nadeem
thanks alan Actually I am using load balancing for rapid authentication of users. let suppose i have one prosy server that is proxying incoming requests to these five servers. Theoratically the speed of authentication should be fast. But in case of mine it is too slow. I have changed 'max_requests

Re: Load Balancing Issue

2013-02-12 Thread Russell Mike
There are many different things you are talking at the same time. You want increase the response time of auth. Is your database indexed? Thanks On Tuesday, February 12, 2013, Muhammad Nadeem wrote: thanks alan Actually I am using load balancing for rapid authentication of users. let suppose

Load Balancing

2013-02-12 Thread Muhammad Nadeem
Hi, I am new to freeradius. I wantto implement load balancing on freeradius servers (not on backend database). I want that if a bulk of requests are received, these requests should be distributed evenly among multiple freeradius servers. Can any one please tell me, how could i achieve this goal

Re: Load Balancing

2013-02-12 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
hi, I want that if a bulk of requests are received, these requests should be distributed evenly among multiple freeradius servers. in proxy.conf, ensure that you have a suitable load-balance type defined for the target servers - be aware that some types do not operate with EAP...as the

Re: Load Balancing

2013-02-12 Thread Alan DeKok
Muhammad Nadeem wrote: Hi, I am new to freeradius. I wantto implement load balancing on freeradius servers (not on backend database). I want that if a bulk of requests are received, these requests should be distributed evenly among multiple freeradius servers. Can any one please tell me, how

Re: Load Balancing

2013-02-12 Thread Muhammad Nadeem
succeed. Could you please help me out to send parallel requests to proxy server??? Bundle of thanks in advance :) On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Alan DeKok al...@deployingradius.comwrote: Muhammad Nadeem wrote: Hi, I am new to freeradius. I wantto implement load balancing on freeradius

Re: Load Balancing

2013-02-12 Thread Alan DeKok
Muhammad Nadeem wrote: thanx alan,, I have configured a proxy server using documentation of 'proxy.conf'. which is proxying requests to 2 home_servers. Yes you are right, may b the tool which I am using (Radius NT client) sending requests in series. Then the test doesn't mean anything. I

Re: Load Balancing Issue

2013-02-12 Thread John Dennis
On 02/12/2013 06:12 AM, Muhammad Nadeem wrote: thanks alan Actually I am using load balancing for rapid authentication of users. let suppose i have one prosy server that is proxying incoming requests to these five servers. Theoratically the speed of authentication should be fast. But in case

RE: Load Balancing

2013-02-12 Thread adrian.p.smith
There aren't many good tools available. I did have a tool on the corporate web site (radperf), but that's been taken down for various reasons. You can always use commercial traffic generators. We're a Java group and we use Jmeter with a home-written sampler that uses TinyRadius client.

Re: Load Balancing

2013-02-12 Thread Muhammad Nadeem
thanx alan.. But i searching around on web i came to know that radclient can also be used for load testing. But when i use this with -p (to send requests in parallel), it only send one packet. here is the command out put [root@billing ~]# echo User-Name=001AAD3F8165,

Re: redundant load balancing and mschap

2012-08-25 Thread Phil Mayers
On 08/24/2012 11:53 PM, McNutt, Justin M. wrote: The underlying problem is that I have four production RADIUS servers that all seem to choose the same domain controller, which is not only a lot of load, but it's a bad idea in terms of fault tolerance. I agree about the fault tolerance. In my

redundant load balancing and mschap

2012-08-24 Thread McNutt, Justin M.
Grrr... This is probably a Samba issue - a known one? - but I can't seem to get AD authentications to hit multiple DCs. Everything goes to the one listed in /etc/samba/smb.conf (which may be a coincidence). I set up several mschap instances like so: mschap mschap1 { ... ntlm_auth -s

Re: redundant load balancing and mschap

2012-08-24 Thread Alan DeKok
McNutt, Justin M. wrote: Grrr... This is probably a Samba issue - a known one? - but I can't seem to get AD authentications to hit multiple DCs. Everything goes to the one listed in /etc/samba/smb.conf (which may be a coincidence). That's how the NT protocols work, IIRC. You need to

Re: redundant load balancing and mschap

2012-08-24 Thread alan buxey
Hi, Authentication *works*, but all authentications go to the same DC (the one specified in mschap2).  Running radiusd -X shows that all mschap1/2/3 instances are being called, and no authentication *attempts* are being sent to the other two domain controllers.  (1 and 3 aren't

Re: redundant load balancing and mschap

2012-08-24 Thread Phil Mayers
On 08/24/2012 08:11 PM, McNutt, Justin M. wrote: Grrr... This is probably a Samba issue - a known one? - but I can't seem to get AD authentications to hit multiple DCs. Everything goes to the one This is indeed a Samba issue, and unfortunately a hard one to fix. ntlm_auth doesn't talk over

RE: redundant load balancing and mschap

2012-08-24 Thread McNutt, Justin M.
@lists.freeradius.org] On Behalf Of alan buxey Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 3:59 PM To: FreeRadius users mailing list Subject: Re: redundant load balancing and mschap Hi, Authentication *works*, but all authentications go to the same DC (the one specified in mschap2).  Running radiusd

RE: redundant load balancing and mschap

2012-08-24 Thread McNutt, Justin M.
- From: freeradius-users-bounces+mcnuttj=missouri@lists.freeradius.org [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+mcnuttj=missouri@lists.freeradius.org] On Behalf Of Phil Mayers Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 4:23 PM To: freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org Subject: Re: redundant load balancing

RE: redundant load balancing and mschap

2012-08-24 Thread McNutt, Justin M.
@lists.freeradius.org [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+mcnuttj=missouri@lists.freeradius.org] On Behalf Of Phil Mayers Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 4:23 PM To: freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org Subject: Re: redundant load balancing and mschap On 08/24/2012 08:11 PM, McNutt, Justin M. wrote

RE: load balancing and if statements

2012-04-06 Thread Brian Julin
of the space-separated hostnames; that I did not test. For load-balancing (this I have not tested) a round-robin DNS for the LDAP servername may result in connections load balancing. Really this depends on the DNS caching behavior inside the LDAP library and on the host OS, but my impression

Re: load balancing and if statements

2012-03-28 Thread Phil Mayers
On 27/03/12 23:38, Brian De Wolf wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:46:22 -0700 Scott McLane Gardnersgar...@uark.edu wrote: If I can't use if statements in a load balance block, can anyone suggest another way to go about accomplishing what I want to do here? After reading this thread and

Re: load balancing and if statements

2012-03-27 Thread Scott McLane Gardner
This is the answer. Also, this is much easier than what I was trying to do. Thank you for the pointer, Alan. -Scott On 3/26/12 5:17 PM, Alan Buxey a.l.m.bu...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: hi, a quick glance at your question and i'd say you be better off using simple entries in the users file - simple

RE: load balancing and if statements

2012-03-27 Thread Brian Julin
Scott McLane Gardner wrote: Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:34 AM To: FreeRadius users mailing list Subject: Re: load balancing and if statements This is the answer. Also, this is much easier than what I was trying to do. Thank you for the pointer, Alan. -Scott I'd be surprised

Re: load balancing and if statements

2012-03-27 Thread Alan DeKok
Brian Julin wrote: I'd be surprised if using Ldap-Group in the user's file resulted in load balancing of the group membership queries to the LDAP servers. Does it? It doesn't. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

Re: load balancing and if statements

2012-03-27 Thread Scott McLane Gardner
I'd be surprised if using Ldap-Group in the user's file resulted in load balancing of the group membership queries to the LDAP servers. Does it? It does, actually. Or at least it appears to. The first time it used ldap2 and the second time it used ldap1. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See

Re: load balancing and if statements

2012-03-27 Thread Scott McLane Gardner
Brian Julin wrote: I'd be surprised if using Ldap-Group in the user's file resulted in load balancing of the group membership queries to the LDAP servers. Does it? It doesn't. Alan DeKok. So, now I'm confused again. If this doesn¹t load balance, then how should I really be going about

RE: load balancing and if statements

2012-03-27 Thread Brian Julin
Scott McLane Gardner I'd be surprised if using Ldap-Group in the user's file resulted in load balancing of the group membership queries to the LDAP servers. Does it? It does, actually. Or at least it appears to. The first time it used ldap2 and the second time it used ldap1

Re: load balancing and if statements

2012-03-27 Thread Phil Mayers
On 27/03/12 15:07, Scott McLane Gardner wrote: I'd be surprised if using Ldap-Group in the user's file resulted in load balancing of the group membership queries to the LDAP servers. Does it? It does, actually. Or at least it appears to. The first time it used ldap2 and the second time

Re: load balancing and if statements

2012-03-27 Thread Scott McLane Gardner
I cannot answer your question about if statements, but this much is clear: the Ldap-Group check attribute will query the ldap module that was instantiated last. If you want to query a specific module, you have to use modulename-Ldap-Group. Similarly for ldap xlats, you have to use the module

RE: load balancing and if statements

2012-03-27 Thread Brian Julin
.) Does this mean that what I want to do is not possible? I don't know, but I'll probably look into it over the next week or two, because I never looked too hard at the LDAP config I inherited, and didn't realize it was not load-balancing those requests myself, and in fact isn't even redundant, so

Re: load balancing and if statements

2012-03-27 Thread Alan DeKok
Scott McLane Gardner wrote: So, now I'm confused again. If this doesn¹t load balance, then how should I really be going about this? It's hard. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

Re: load balancing and if statements

2012-03-27 Thread Scott McLane Gardner
So, is the documentation at http://wiki.freeradius.org/Load-balancing#Interaction+with+%22if%22+and+%22 else%22 incorrect, or is it only correct for the very latest version? -Scott - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

Re: load balancing and if statements

2012-03-27 Thread Alan Buxey
Hi, Does this mean that what I want to do is not possible? my advice was so you werent doing all that LDAP-Group , NAS-IP-Address stuff in unlang... regarding the load-balance, you should be okay just keeping that bit similar to how you had it ...heck, you might even try

Re: load balancing and if statements

2012-03-27 Thread Alan DeKok
Scott McLane Gardner wrote: So, is the documentation at http://wiki.freeradius.org/Load-balancing#Interaction+with+%22if%22+and+%22 else%22 incorrect, or is it only correct for the very latest version? It's correct. You're missing the point. That documentation is for calling MODULES

Re: load balancing and if statements

2012-03-27 Thread Alan Buxey
Hi, So, is the documentation at http://wiki.freeradius.org/Load-balancing#Interaction+with+%22if%22+and+%22 else%22 incorrect, or is it only correct for the very latest version? its correct you want to load balance the requests to the LDAP servers, yes? so whats the load balancing

Re: load balancing and if statements

2012-03-27 Thread Brian De Wolf
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:46:22 -0700 Scott McLane Gardner sgar...@uark.edu wrote: If I can't use if statements in a load balance block, can anyone suggest another way to go about accomplishing what I want to do here? After reading this thread and realizing it affects my implementation (though

load balancing and if statements

2012-03-26 Thread Scott McLane Gardner
FR 2.1.10 on Linux I want to load balance my LDAP servers, but I also want to do some checking for group membership. Reading the documentation at http://wiki.freeradius.org/Load-balancing#Interaction+with+%22if%22+and+%22 else%22 makes me think I can use if and elsif statements in a load

RE: load balancing and if statements

2012-03-26 Thread Brian Julin
Scott McLane Gardner Wrote: Here is the configuration I am attempting: load-balance { ldap1 if (Ldap-Group == NET Staff) { I cannot answer your question about if statements, but this much is clear: the Ldap-Group check attribute will query the ldap module that was

Re: load balancing and if statements

2012-03-26 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, a quick glance at your question and i'd say you be better off using simple entries in the users file - simple check items (use huntgroups for your NAS addresses) with LDAP groups. match the good stuff, set reply match the bad stuff, set reject. alan - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See

Re: Load Balancing EAP with freeradius...

2011-03-24 Thread Alexander Clouter
Robert Roll robert.r...@utah.edu wrote: I'd like to try load balancing EAP/PEAP/MSCHAPV2 using freeradius. I looked at the proxy.conf and it seems that there are two options, because you have to insure the same end client talks to the same radius server. There seems to be client-balance

RE: Load Balancing EAP with freeradius...

2011-03-24 Thread Robert Roll
: freeradius-users-bounces+robert.roll=utah@lists.freeradius.org [freeradius-users-bounces+robert.roll=utah@lists.freeradius.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Clouter [a...@digriz.org.uk] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 4:15 AM To: freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org Subject: Re: Load Balancing

Load Balancing EAP with freeradius...

2011-03-23 Thread Robert Roll
I'd like to try load balancing EAP/PEAP/MSCHAPV2 using freeradius. I looked at the proxy.conf and it seems that there are two options, because you have to insure the same end client talks to the same radius server. There seems to be client-balance that uses IP source addresses

Re: Load Balancing EAP with freeradius...

2011-03-23 Thread Phil Mayers
On 03/23/2011 08:56 PM, Robert Roll wrote: I'd like to try load balancing EAP/PEAP/MSCHAPV2 using freeradius. I looked at the proxy.conf and it seems that there are two options, because you have to insure the same end client talks to the same radius server. There seems to be client-balance

Re: Load Balancing EAP with freeradius...

2011-03-23 Thread Alan Buxey
Hi, I'd like to try load balancing EAP/PEAP/MSCHAPV2 using freeradius. I looked at the proxy.conf and it seems that there are two options, because you have to insure the same end client talks to the same radius server. There seems to be client-balance that uses IP source

RE: Load Balancing EAP with freeradius...

2011-03-23 Thread Robert Roll
-bounces+robert.roll=utah@lists.freeradius.org [freeradius-users-bounces+robert.roll=utah@lists.freeradius.org] On Behalf Of Phil Mayers [p.may...@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 3:47 PM To: freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org Subject: Re: Load Balancing EAP with freeradius

Re: Load Balancing FreeRADIUS with CLUSTERIP

2011-03-03 Thread Randy Wilson
Alexander Clouter a...@digriz.org.uk wrote: We anycast our FreeRADIUS servers and have had great success with this. http://www.digriz.org.uk/ha-ospf-anycast Very interesting. Many thanks for that. May look into deploying this, especially for DNS. REW - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See

Re: Load Balancing FreeRADIUS with CLUSTERIP

2011-03-03 Thread Randy Wilson
Alan DeKok al...@deployingradius.com wrote: But for accounting, and PAP/CHAP authentication, it will work fine. Fantastic. Many thanks for the confirmation. REW - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

Re: Load Balancing FreeRADIUS with CLUSTERIP

2011-03-03 Thread Alexander Clouter
Randy Wilson randyedwil...@gmail.com wrote: We anycast our FreeRADIUS servers and have had great success with this. http://www.digriz.org.uk/ha-ospf-anycast Very interesting. Many thanks for that. May look into deploying this, especially for DNS. The most surprising helpful and

Load Balancing FreeRADIUS with CLUSTERIP

2011-03-02 Thread Randy Wilson
Hi, Does anyone have any experience of load balancing two or more FreeRADIUS servers using the iptables CLUSTERIP target? For those unaware, it allows a single IP address to be assigned to multiple servers. A multicast MAC address is used so that the traffic is forwarded to each server

Re: Load Balancing FreeRADIUS with CLUSTERIP

2011-03-02 Thread Alexander Clouter
Randy Wilson randyedwil...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have any experience of load balancing two or more FreeRADIUS servers using the iptables CLUSTERIP target? [snipped] I have some production SMTP and FTP clusters that are load balanced in a similar way, with Pacemaker handling

Re: Load Balancing FreeRADIUS with CLUSTERIP

2011-03-02 Thread Alan DeKok
Randy Wilson wrote: I'm considering assigning a CLUSTERIP to the servers so we can make full use of the resources. Does anyone see any potential issues of using this with FreeRADIUS or know of any caveats I should be aware of? EAP won't work. It requires multi-packet round trips between

Re: Load Balancing FreeRADIUS with CLUSTERIP

2011-03-02 Thread Sven Hartge
Alan DeKok al...@deployingradius.com wrote: Randy Wilson wrote: I'm considering assigning a CLUSTERIP to the servers so we can make full use of the resources. Does anyone see any potential issues of using this with FreeRADIUS or know of any caveats I should be aware of? EAP won't work.

Freeradius load balancing.

2009-11-20 Thread nick
At the moment we have a freeradius 1.1.3 server on CentOS which is functioning fine, but due to circumstances, and the devices we are using as NASes, the ip pools are located on the NAS instead of being centralized on the RADIUS server as we'd like it. We'd now like to make things a bit more

Re: Freeradius load balancing.

2009-11-20 Thread Alan DeKok
nick wrote: At the moment we have a freeradius 1.1.3 server on CentOS which is functioning fine, but due to circumstances, and the devices we are using as NASes, the ip pools are located on the NAS instead of being centralized on the RADIUS server as we'd like it. You should really upgrade

Re: Freeradius load balancing.

2009-11-20 Thread Nick Warr
Alan DeKok ha scritto: nick wrote: At the moment we have a freeradius 1.1.3 server on CentOS which is functioning fine, but due to circumstances, and the devices we are using as NASes, the ip pools are located on the NAS instead of being centralized on the RADIUS server as we'd like it.

Re: Freeradius load balancing.

2009-11-20 Thread John Dennis
On 11/20/2009 09:52 AM, Nick Warr wrote: Alan DeKok ha scritto: nick wrote: At the moment we have a freeradius 1.1.3 server on CentOS which is functioning fine, but due to circumstances, and the devices we are using as NASes, the ip pools are located on the NAS instead of being centralized on

Re: Freeradius load balancing.

2009-11-20 Thread Michael da Silva Pereira
On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 15:52 +0100, Nick Warr wrote: I may have misphrased the question, if the ip pool is a single one, containing say 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.50, is there a way that the second Radius server can know the IPs distributed by the first Radius server to avoid duplicate IP

Re: Freeradius load balancing.

2009-11-20 Thread tnt
MySQL is a DB. If it exports a transactional API, then it doesn't matter if two RADIUS servers are allocating IP's simultaneously. Alan DeKok. I may have misphrased the question, No, you didn't understand the answer. if the ip pool is a single one, containing say 192.168.1.1 -

Re: Freeradius load balancing.

2009-11-20 Thread Alan DeKok
Nick Warr wrote: I may have misphrased the question, if the ip pool is a single one, containing say 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.50, is there a way that the second Radius server can know the IPs distributed by the first Radius server to avoid duplicate IP assignments? You said they both talked

RE: failover and load balancing

2009-04-22 Thread Santiago Balaguer García
Postgres does supposedly have a version in beta for full master-master replication, but every time we've tried to get it running it's crashed on us as soon as we tried to actually write any data. Postgres in general seemed much slower than MySQL for reading the data we needed as well. I

RE: failover and load balancing

2009-04-22 Thread Meyers, Dan
snip I use a PostgreSQL DB form my three AAA server and the DB is enough quick for serveral request per second. Aah. We were wanting to handle 100 or so requests a second. Postgres might well have done this, but we wanted room for expansion and our tests with 10'000 requests at ~100 a second

Re: failover and load balancing

2009-04-22 Thread Uwe Kastens
Hi, Meyers, Dan schrieb: snip I use a PostgreSQL DB form my three AAA server and the DB is enough quick for serveral request per second. I could be wrong, there might be one we've missed. If so, i'd love to know as well, as master-master replication would make our lives easier too :)

Re: failover and load balancing

2009-04-22 Thread John Millican
Uwe Kastens wrote: Hi, Meyers, Dan schrieb: snip I use a PostgreSQL DB form my three AAA server and the DB is enough quick for serveral request per second. I could be wrong, there might be one we've missed. If so, i'd love to know as well, as master-master replication would make our

Re: failover and load balancing

2009-04-22 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Santiago Balaguer García santiago...@hotmail.com wrote: However, I am looking for a (free) master-master DB, and the replication in postgres crashes. And the problem in MySQL it was told before. I admit suggestions for a BETTER free DB. MySQL can do

Re: failover and load balancing

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Schwartzkopff
Am Mittwoch, 22. April 2009 11:54:00 schrieb Meyers, Dan: snip I use a PostgreSQL DB form my three AAA server and the DB is enough quick for serveral request per second. Aah. We were wanting to handle 100 or so requests a second. Postgres might well have done this, but we wanted room for

Re: failover and load balancing

2009-04-22 Thread Uwe Kastens
Hello, I could be wrong, there might be one we've missed. If so, i'd love to know as well, as master-master replication would make our lives easier too :) What is your need? More Read than write? Mabye think about mysql proxy or some free cluster option. First the disclaimer: I have not

Re: failover and load balancing

2009-04-22 Thread Uwe Kastens
Michael, supposedly a PostgreSQL master-master replication package I think there might be much more read access then write access by using a DB backend for RADIUS. If so it might be enough to have one master to write and many slaves to read from. Or many master with a kind of sql proxy like

RE: failover and load balancing POSTGRESQL

2009-04-22 Thread Santiago Balaguer García
Yes, man. We know the PostgreSQL solution does not work. ORACLE is expensive. MySQL is one master and serveral slaves. Do you know another master-master database management system which is cheap? Santiago Ok. That is true. In that case you are talking about loosing money if the

Re: failover and load balancing POSTGRESQL

2009-04-22 Thread Uwe Kastens
Santiago, Yes, man. We know the PostgreSQL solution does not work. ORACLE is expensive. MySQL is one master and serveral slaves. I don't think that the price of oracle is the problem. Without 3rd party there is no way to have a real cluster solution. Do you know another master-master

RE: failover and load balancing POSTGRESQL

2009-04-22 Thread tnt
Yes, man. We know the PostgreSQL solution does not work. ORACLE is expensive. MySQL is one master and serveral slaves. You can set up MySQL as master1-slave2 == slave1-master2. That works sort of like master-master replication. Ivan Kalik Kalik Informatika ISP - List

Re: failover and load balancing POSTGRESQL

2009-04-22 Thread Ben Wiechman
If you require synchronous replication and your queries are conducive to it there is MySQL Cluster. You might get some of the functionality you want with DRBD (but write performance hits) and MySQL, which is supported officially by MySQL, or through the use of circular replication with a pair of

Re: failover and load balancing

2009-04-22 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Uwe Kastens ki...@kiste.org wrote: The problem with master master for mysql is, that you have to resync each time you are dropping a table, a view etc.pp. No you don't. When setup correctly, all SQL statement on one node will be executed on the other node as

RE: failover and load balancing

2009-04-20 Thread Meyers, Dan
Subject: RE: failover and load balancing snip I also believe you're saying that I could load balance, too. In this case, auth and accounting could be done on both machines, and I would still have one freeradius server in use (primary), from the NAS' point of view. There are probably many

failover and load balancing

2009-04-17 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
for the database bit. What I don't understand is how the failover and load balancing is done on the freeradius level (i.e. for auth) and still enter a single IP for freeradius on the NAS. Am I supposed to configure a virtual server on the first freeradius server, copy the config to the second machine

RE: failover and load balancing

2009-04-17 Thread Ivan Kalik
and handle accounting failover. I can conceptualize a cluster or even simple fail over using heartbeat for the database bit. No need. What I don't understand is how the failover and load balancing is done on the freeradius level (i.e. for auth) and still enter a single IP for freeradius on the NAS. It's

Re: failover and load balancing

2009-04-17 Thread Borislav Dimitrov
conceptualize a cluster or even simple fail over using heartbeat for the database bit. No need. What I don't understand is how the failover and load balancing is done on the freeradius level (i.e. for auth) and still enter a single IP for freeradius on the NAS. It's not done that way. Your

RE: failover and load balancing

2009-04-17 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
makes things easier and what I would prefer to do. Yes. Two identical configurations using buffered-sql or ronust-proxy-accounting to send accounting to the database (or it's backups) on top of default stuff. Even if you use load balancing (EAP can't work that way - all EAP exchanges need

redundant + load balancing not working?

2008-10-15 Thread ST Wong (ITSC)
. However, when I specify the 2 ldap servers like following: redundant-load-balance { ldap1 ldap2 } The effect is just like redundant. All requests go still go to ldap1 instead of load balancing. Did I

Re: redundant + load balancing not working?

2008-10-15 Thread Alan DeKok
like redundant. All requests go still go to ldap1 instead of load balancing. All I can say is that it works in my tests. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

Re: Radius Load-Balancing concept

2008-01-04 Thread Sebastian Ganschow
Hi, load-balancing between the radius servers is not necessarily needed. I think the servers we're going to by will be capable to manage all dialin accounts. So the radius servers will be in fail over mode. If the first one is up, all requests will be handled by it. If it fails, the second one

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