Hello Sudjiwo -
On Wednesday 07 March 2001 21:09, Sudjiwo Husodo wrote:
> Hi all !!
>
> We are moving our Radiator on mysql/linux to Oracle due to our billing
> systems that
> is developed on Oracle. We are debating whether to use Oracle/Linux or
> Oracle/Sun.
> Can anybody comment as to which platform is better for Radiator?
>
> We currently have 27 pops (35,000 subscribers) and considering to have a
> copy of
> the local pops subscribers on each pop using Oracle replication (and of
> course a
> local pop radiator). The needs is due to bw savings more than
> infrastructure stability
> in Indonesia. Currently with mysql/linux a centralized radiator works just
> fine. Can
> anybody comment on this approach?
I strongly discourage you from running Oracle replication (or any other
database replication out to POP locations). There are several reasons for
this including: bandwidth - SQL takes far more bandwidth than Radius,
security - keeping secure data at more than one site becomes a serious
problem, and reliability and performance - database replication is a very
hard thing to do.
You are *much* better off to put Radius servers at your POP locations, but
configure them to run as Proxies back to your main site. Radiator allows you
to both cache Proxy replies (for redundancy) and to write accounting data to
a local file (for data coherency). This is a far easier approach to manage.
At your main location I would suggest a set up with two Radiator hosts
outside your Firewall (one as primary and the other as secondary) each one
running the new load balancing code in Radiator 2.18 (out very soon). Then
you would have a minimum of two Radiator hosts inside the Firewall, each one
talking to your main SQL host.
hth
Hugh
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