Hello Mariano -
On Thursday 03 May 2001 06:15, Mariano Absatz wrote:
> Hi... on my delayed reading of the list I found this:
>
> El 18 Apr 2001, a las 9:45, Hugh Irvine escribió:
> > Hello Andy -
> >
> > The session database will be accessed by both authentication (to delete
> > and to check limits) and accounting (to insert and delete).
>
> <SNIP>
>
> So... I have different instances of Radiator for accounting and
> authentication, then BOTH have to have the <SessionDatabase> clause? And
> should they be identical?
>
Yes. This is the same situation as having multiple machines running Radiator
- they all need to share the same session database (if coherency among them
is an issue).
> On re-reading the "Performance and Tunning" section in the manual
> (http://www.open.com.au/radiator/ref.html#pgfId=406539), I find a good
> list of hints, but most of them are sometimes not very usefull when you
> DO have to do some strange things... anyway, since I saw it many times in
> the list, the separation between an Authentication server and an
> Accounting server in different instances even when it is in the same
> machine, seems to be a no-lose proposition, since you are losing no
> functionality at all (I think) and you don't have to buy extra hardware
> (it's easy to say "see, boss, I need 4 or 5 more Sun Netras T1 to improve
> radius speed" only to hear him say "gee, why don't you do it with that
> Sparc I that no one is using now?").
>
> Since I see this so often said in the list, it might get a subsection
> with some configuration tips for this, like, "you have to put this kind
> of sections on the auth config, those sections in the acct config and
> this bunch in both... maybe you should use "Include common.cfg" for these
> last ones...
>
> Put it in the wishlist for the next release (2.18.2? 2.19? please don't
> do anything like naming it "Radiator 20" -à la Solaris- or "Radiator
> 2001" or "Radiator NE (Nonsense Edition)" -à la MS- :-)
I have been thinking about adding some more complex configuration files to
the goodies section and I can see that the manual could contain some more
detail. Thanks for the suggestion.
BTW - I think the next major release of Radiator will be Radiator-3.0, which
will include support for the next generation "Diameter" protocol.
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/aaa-charter.html
regards
Hugh
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