On 12 Sep 2011, at 16:04, Sallee, Stephen (Jake) wrote: > @ everyone > > We have about 100 NAS entries in our clients.conf file, it makes the file a > bear to deal with but the server seems to handle it fine. We will be > expanding our infrastructure soon and the number of NAS entries will increase > significantly. At what point should we think about putting them into a > database for FR to use?
When it becomes a bear to deal with the clients.conf file :) - I guess memory might be a concern? But i'm sure there are sites out there with client.conf files holding thousands of entries... It's a hash table in C, it's going to be fast. > > Also, I have seen some chatter on the list about dynamic NASs. Am I correct > in assuming that if we are using a DB instead of the clients.conf file we can > add or remove clients simply by making changes to the correct table, all > without having to restart FR? Indeed. You can also set them to expire as well, to clean up old unused entries. -Arran Arran Cudbard-Bell a.cudba...@freeradius.org RADIUS - Waging war on ignorance and apathy one Access-Challenge at a time. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
