Performance tweaking and testing.

2005-06-11 Thread Arne . Olav . Kjosnes
Hi all, We have 1500 customers connected to our PPPoE servers, to autenticate we have 2 freeradius servers connected to a mssql server. The radius servers don't autenticate fast enough, our PPPoE server starts to hang when there are to many radius autentications idle/waiting for a answer from

Re: Performance tweaking and testing.

2005-06-11 Thread Michael Mitchell
We have 1500 customers connected to our PPPoE servers, to autenticate we have 2 freeradius servers connected to a mssql server. How many authentications per second are you expecting? With decent hardware you should be able to authenticate all 1500 within a couple of seconds. I've tested

Re: Performance tweaking and testing.

2005-06-11 Thread Arne . Olav . Kjosnes
Thanks for the reply. Many good tips, I have added som info/questions/answers under some of them. Another question: What did you set your max_requests, start_servers and max_servers to? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11.06.2005 14:01:58: We have 1500 customers connected to our PPPoE

AW: MAC address authorization

2005-06-11 Thread Andre Herkenrath
Hi, I´ve done this with access-points from extremenetworks. There it went this way: You have to create users in the usersfile in the folowing way: Username: MAC-Adress Password: Mac-Adress That´s all Maybe Cisco does it the same way (Cisco never had a good idea, only a goog bank account)

Netscreen authentication on freeradius

2005-06-11 Thread Shrikant Agashe
Hi Radius ppls I'm trying to use free radius for Netscreen authentication I'm using FreeRADIUS Version 0.8.1. Can some pl help on this. Here is output on radius console -- rad_recv: Access-Request packet from host

make install - File format not recognized

2005-06-11 Thread Christopher Cover
Hi! I've recently downloaded and compiled freeradius-1.0.3 on CentOS release 3.4 on i386 platform. (CentOS is about the same as RedHat and Fedora). My configure command was this: ./configure --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc --with-gnu-ld --without-sasl --enable-ucd-snmp-compatibility

Re: Performance tweaking and testing.

2005-06-11 Thread Alan DeKok
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What did you set your max_requests, start_servers and max_servers to? With only 1500 users, the defaults should be OK. My client was the limiting factor though, I couldn't max out the CPU of the RADIUS server. at least 700, if a server goes down, the other

Re: Netscreen authentication on freeradius

2005-06-11 Thread Alan DeKok
Shrikant Agashe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use free radius for Netscreen authentication I'm using FreeRADIUS Version 0.8.1. Can some pl help on this. Here is output on radius console Ok... what do you think is going wrong? What do you want it to do? Alan DeKok. - List

Re: Performance tweaking and testing.

2005-06-11 Thread Nicolas Baradakis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will try some more tweaking, but I would like to have a test tool first. So I could see the differences. Install a CVS snapshot of FreeRADIUS on the machine which runs the client. New options -p and -n have been added to radclient to respectively send 'p' packets in

Re: make install - File format not recognized

2005-06-11 Thread Nicolas Baradakis
Christopher Cover wrote: /usr/local/src/radius/freeradius-1.0.3/install-sh -c -m 755 -s radwho /usr/local/bin strip: /usr/local/bin/#inst.31097#: File format not recognized [...] Does anyone have a clue about this? It was reported many times on the mailing list... Try to replace the

Re: Performance tweaking and testing.

2005-06-11 Thread Michael Mitchell
Nicolas Baradakis wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will try some more tweaking, but I would like to have a test tool first. So I could see the differences. Install a CVS snapshot of FreeRADIUS on the machine which runs the client. New options -p and -n have been added to radclient to

Re: Performance tweaking and testing.

2005-06-11 Thread Alan DeKok
Michael Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only issue with radclient is it uses a single set of attributes for every request. Nope. It reads any number of requests from any number of files, caches them, and then starts sending data to the server. It's not quite the same as dynamic

rlm_sql Info logging noise

2005-06-11 Thread Aaron Paetznick
The rlm-sql module seems to spew a lot of Info logging messages if you use Simultaneous-Use. Specifically, if I add a Simultaneous-Use attribute to the radcheck or radgroupcheck tables, it starts logging: Sat Jun 11 22:00:26 2005 : Info: rlm_sql (sql): No matching entry in the database for

Re: rlm_sql Info logging noise

2005-06-11 Thread Alan DeKok
Aaron Paetznick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be possible for FreeRADIUS to support logging levels similar to syslog? For that matter, could syslog become an option? syslog support will be in 1.1.x and following. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See