Re: who's using freeradius in production?

[Kostas Kalevras]

On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Alan DeKok wrote:

> "Mike Denka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm getting some flack from management about all of the open source
> > we're using on our network and, particularly, the possibility of
> > employing an open source radius server that is still in beta!
>
>   I can understand the concern over the 'beta' status of the server.
> However, there *is* the possibility that we're more honest about the
> status of the software than the commercial RADIUS vendors. :)
>
> >  I don't blame them for being a bit edgy about this.  I've done
> > substantial testing of Freeradius and found it to be a superb
> > product (comparing it to the old Livingston radius we have used for
> > years).  But all the testing in the world doesn't stand up to weeks
> > or months in a sizable production environment.  Anyone here willing
> > to give testimony to running FreeRadius in production serving
> > 10,000+ dialup customers?
>
>   There are people doing this.  I know of a few ISP's with at least
> that many customers using it, but I don't want to speak for them.
>
>   It *will* require on-going maintenance and attention.  An
> authentication server can't be left alone, as there are always new
> accounts added, and new configurations created.
>
> > How about in a large production environment with an LDAP backend?
>
>   I saw a presentation where the Greek national education network was
> using FreeRADIUS, with an LDAP back-end, for 500k users, and something
> like 200 POP's.  But I just did a search on google, and I can't find
> the presentation.

We are using a quite old freeradius snapshot in our university with one AS5300
and 15000 ldap users/sql accounting without any problems.

As for the Greek Educational Network we have started using it in 5 POPs one
AS5800 and 4 AS3640 and it is working quite fine. Eventually it will be used in
the whole network and support around 10 users.

>
>   Alan DeKok.
>
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Re: who's using freeradius in production?

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Dear Mike Denka,

We're  using  FreeRADIUS since version 0.3 with ~20.000 accounts in dbm.
It's  most  functional  and more stable comparing with all tested RADIUS
servers.  In  fact  there was no a single crash of radiusd in production
environment   (we're  quite  conservative  and  wait  some  time  before
installing any new version in production).

--Friday, July 26, 2002, 11:40:42 PM, you wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

MD> I'm getting some flack from management about all of the open source
MD> we're using on our network and, particularly, the possibility of
MD> employing an open source radius server that is still in beta!  I don't
MD> blame them for being a bit edgy about this.  I've done substantial
MD> testing of Freeradius and found it to be a superb product (comparing it
MD> to the old Livingston radius we have used for years).  But all the
MD> testing in the world doesn't stand up to weeks or months in a sizable
MD> production environment.  Anyone here willing to give testimony to
MD> running FreeRadius in production serving 10,000+ dialup customers?

MD> How about in a large production environment with an LDAP backend?


MD> Thanks,

MD> Mike


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