Hi, We are thinking of evaluating freeRadius and it's ability to run external scripts for authentication and accounting. Currently, we are using XTRadius for this.
A problem we face with XTRadius is though it can support a large number of users as long as the rate at which the users login is slow, it freezes the system when the rate is high. For example, when we reboot a NAS with 300 users and they try to reconnect within a short span of time. I don't think there is anything basically wrong with the radius. It is just that the number of Perl process (external script) that are spawned at the instant is just to high for the given resource. We were not able to find any way to limit the number of external processes spawned by the radius. Is there anyway, to do this in FreeRadius? Is there any other solution? Of course, adding RAM or moving onto a better server is always there. Anyway, what would be the recommended hardware for 420 simultaneous online users. We use perl scipts to authenticate users against an Oracle Database containg 6000 users with about 2000 active ones. Ashish Shrestha - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
