Hello Chris -
On Sunday 18 March 2001 10:31, Chris M wrote:
> Awright this is probably obvious but my brain is crystallized on this
> topic, I'm not getting anywhere anymore.
>
> I am trying to figure out how to:
>
> Create config files that separate auth and acct into different instances of
> Radiator.
>
> To do this it looks like I can create a radacct.cfg (1646)
> and a radauth.cfg (1645), giving the Auth config access
> to the SessionDatabase and the Auth database (both SQL),
> and having the Acct config access the Auth DB and
> SessionDatabase.
>
Yes, both instances (or any number of instances) can access the same SQL
database.
> The only problem I forsee is, how do I make the SessionDatabase
> high-availability? In other words, is there a way to replicate
> the DB INSERTs and DELETEs so that auth or acct radiator
> processes talking to MySQL can have entries simultaneously
> made in SessionDatabases on two different machines? Since
> MySQL doesn't have any replication features built in, how do
> people accomplish this syncing?
>
The simplest thing to do is just use a single SQL host, but use a
high-availability multi-processor machine with hot-swap RAID disks. This is
usually *much* easier to do than trying to replicate databases.
hth
Hugh
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