I would agree with everything Chris said. I think I said about the same thing in a different way.
Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris > Parker > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 1:31 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Maximum/Ideal/Suggested number of users (current and > possible ) > > > At 02:20 PM 2/6/2003 -0500, Tim Rich, Jr. wrote: > >Thanks, Tim - > >Then some details are available: > > > >We currently serve ~1500 users, max concurrent connection = 96 users. > >The proposed radius server is a Compaq Proliant DL380, Dual 2.4 > Xenon CPU, 4 > >GB memory, attached to a SAN. This server is running Redhat 7.3 > (testing to > >move to Redhat AS 2.1). > > Wow, that's quite a bit of overkill. If you need 5 9's of reliability > then I would look at dumping that server for a couple smaller/cheaper > servers so that you have multiple servers instead of single one. > > Configure those multiple servers on your nas ( you mention it's a cisco > so it can support quite a few ). Then, if one server happens to go down, > your NAS will failover automatically to one of the others. > > >The growth of our company is anticipated to be added users of ~ > 10,000 this > >year, as we just signed a large contract. Our ratio of users/available > >(concurrent) connections is about 1/15. (this means ~ 660 concurrent > >connections, and would have to add a Cisco AS 5400 to the mix to > make this > >work) > > > >Would FreeRadius provide the robustness, reliability and > scalability that we > >are looking for? > > I have on good authority of FreeRADIUS running far less capacity servers > supporting an order or two larger userbase than what you are describing. > > -Chris > -- > \\\|||/// \ StarNet Inc. \ Chris Parker > \ ~ ~ / \ WX *is* Wireless! \ Director, Engineering > | @ @ | \ http://www.starnetwx.net \ (847) 963-0116 > oOo---(_)---oOo--\------------------------------------------------------ > \ Wholesale Internet Services - http://www.megapop.net > > > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
