Sallee, Stephen (Jake) wrote: > We have about 100 NAS entries in our clients.conf file, it makes the file a > bear to deal with but the server seems to handle it fine. We will be > expanding our infrastructure soon and the number of NAS entries will increase > significantly. At what point should we think about putting them into a > database for FR to use?
Whenever you get tired of managing them in clients.conf. The server has been tested with 500K clients in clients.conf. It takes a few seconds to start, and a gig or so of RAM, but it works. > Also, I have seen some chatter on the list about dynamic NASs. Am I correct > in assuming that if we are using a DB instead of the clients.conf file we can > add or remove clients simply by making changes to the correct table, all > without having to restart FR? Yes. You can also do this with files. See raddb/dynamic_clients in 2.1.12. (When it comes out) Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
