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 100000 users. > > Alan DeKok. > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > -- Kostas Kalevras Network Operations Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] National Technical University of Athens, Greece Work Phone: +30 10 7721861 'Go back to the shadow' Gandalf - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
