On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Zack W Kneisley wrote:

> Thank you very much for your detailed answer to my questions.
> I am in the process of planning an ISP deployment with proxy and local
> clients, including wholesale dialup from Qwest, MegaPOP and Aleron,
> having multiple RADIUS servers downstream.
> I also will need to have a local authentication scheme for Dial-up, DSL,
> and Wireless. I have yet to begin that stage of investigating though,
> and any insight into either Wireless Authentication or DSL would be
> appreciated.
> No detailed instructions are necessary, only real-world deployments that
> have worked or failures. If it's being done, It can be done again with
> enough time and persistence. I also believe that if this whole setup
> could work over a MySQL backend, administration and maintenance could
> benefit from it. Any insight or comments here would be well appreciated
> also.

Use InnoDB and not MyISAM tables if you have a lot of accounting records . The
MyISAM global table lock will create big problems when the radacct tables
starts getting larger and you use things like dialup_admin which do a lot of big
sql queries.

The only thing about MySQL for Authentication/Authorization is that it is used
only for freeradius. You could use LDAP instead and base all your services on
it.

Just my 0.02E

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