Re: Best practices for redundant servers

2007-01-19 Thread Kevin Bonner
On Friday 19 January 2007 14:02, Peter Nixon wrote: > On Fri 19 Jan 2007 18:56, Graham Beneke wrote: > > Would it be possible for someone to dump all the man pages into the wiki? > > Please feel free to do it.. It is a wiki after all :-) Agreed. I've added a few things here and there, but that's

Re: Best practices for redundant servers

2007-01-19 Thread Peter Nixon
On Fri 19 Jan 2007 18:56, Graham Beneke wrote: > Nicolas Baradakis wrote: > > Graham Beneke wrote: > >> Does anyone remember where there is doccumentation on this? > > > > "radsqlrelay" and "rlm_sql_log" have a manpage. > > Would it be possible for someone to dump all the man pages into the wiki?

Re: Best practices for redundant servers

2007-01-19 Thread Graham Beneke
Nicolas Baradakis wrote: > Graham Beneke wrote: >> Does anyone remember where there is doccumentation on this? > > "radsqlrelay" and "rlm_sql_log" have a manpage. > Would it be possible for someone to dump all the man pages into the wiki? It may not be the preferred source of information but I

Re: Best practices for redundant servers

2007-01-19 Thread Nicolas Baradakis
Graham Beneke wrote: > Dennis Skinner wrote: > > > For serious billable accounting you probably want to write to files and > > then import them into the db (there is a module to help with this). > > Radius will happily skip queries that take too long or if there are not > > enough mysql connection

Re: Best practices for redundant servers

2007-01-19 Thread Stieven . Struyf
I use a very simple system to get redundancy. I have 2 seperate radius servers. If i do a change i need to do it on both(biggest disadvantage). In all my access points or other applications i can enter 2 radius servers. When the first doesn't answer it autom. authenticates to the second. This h

Re: Best practices for redundant servers

2007-01-19 Thread Peter Nixon
On Fri 19 Jan 2007 09:10, Alan DeKok wrote: > Graham Beneke wrote: > > I remember reading about 'radsqlrelay' that does essentially this. It is > > also mentioned once in radiusd.conf but subsequent searching has brought > > up nothing worthwhile. > > > > Does anyone remember where there is doccume

Re: Best practices for redundant servers

2007-01-18 Thread Alan DeKok
Graham Beneke wrote: > > I remember reading about 'radsqlrelay' that does essentially this. It is > also mentioned once in radiusd.conf but subsequent searching has brought > up nothing worthwhile. > > Does anyone remember where there is doccumentation on this? rlm_sql_log writes the logs scr

Re: Best practices for redundant servers

2007-01-18 Thread Graham Beneke
Dennis Skinner wrote: > For serious billable accounting you probably want to write to files and > then import them into the db (there is a module to help with this). > Radius will happily skip queries that take too long or if there are not > enough mysql connections available on the accounting sid

Re: Best practices for redundant servers

2007-01-18 Thread Dennis Skinner
Peter Nixon wrote: > If you must use Mysql, use Master-Slave replication for as many authorization > servers as you wish, but configure only ONE radius server to actually write > accounting to the master database and all the others to use radrelay (or > radsqlrelay) to get the data to that serve

Re: Best practices for redundant servers

2007-01-18 Thread Peter Nixon
On Mon 06 Nov 2006 19:38, Aaron Paetznick wrote: > Thanks, this was helpful. I would rather not use LVS. I would prefer > to use the built-in functionality of the NAS to fall back from a primary > to secondary or tertiary auth/accounting servers. > > This whole setup would be far simpler and more

Re: Best practices for redundant servers

2006-11-06 Thread Aaron Paetznick
Thanks, this was helpful. I would rather not use LVS. I would prefer to use the built-in functionality of the NAS to fall back from a primary to secondary or tertiary auth/accounting servers. This whole setup would be far simpler and more robust if I could just do master-master replication w

Re: Best practices for redundant servers

2006-11-04 Thread Nicolas Baradakis
Aaron Paetznick wrote: > I've been struggling with this problem for a couple of weeks, and I > thought I'd pass it along to the mailing list. Basically I'm trying to > answer the following question. Given multiple identical dedicated > servers each running Linux and MySQL, how can I configure

Best practices for redundant servers

2006-11-03 Thread Aaron Paetznick
I've been struggling with this problem for a couple of weeks, and I thought I'd pass it along to the mailing list. Basically I'm trying to answer the following question. Given multiple identical dedicated servers each running Linux and MySQL, how can I configure FreeRADIUS for maximum stabili