pavesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have ~10k users and having some performance issues on my two FreeRadius > 0.4 servers.
Most performance issues can be traced to external databases or DNS lookups. If you're only using the 'users' file, then the server should be able to handle 1000's of requests per second. > I am using MySQL for radius accounting and LDAP as my authentication > methods, along with CHAP. > I get consistent messages of the type: Error: Dropping duplicate > authentication packet from client, from my research this means we are not > answering the radius requests fast enough. Double-check the speed of your LDAP server. It may be taking seconds to respond to a request, which in turn blocks the server. > When my load is broaching 200, 300, etc, I can understand that. What kind > of tweaks do you guys have running to get better performance? Do I just > need a more beefy server? You need the back-end databases to return their answers quickly. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
