On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 07:41:19PM +0800, fooler wrote:
>
> xtradius is good for non heavy loads authentication. but for a very busy
> authentication server, xtradius wont scale because it will consume a lots of
> memory (for every external program called). open and close afterwards a
> mysql database file for every authentication made (which is a very expensive
> thing to do).
I agree. Ian's group is trying to address this issue by using a
helper daemon which does preloading of the external programs.
More details at http://www.xtradius.com/radhelp.html.
> a good alternative for xtradius when using a mysql database is icradius
> which you can find also at the same site xtradius at
> http://www.freeradius.org icradius algorithm open a mysql database at
> startup and close it when the daemon stops.
I'm not really familiar with icradius so I checked it out. True,
it looks like it's the best alternative for Onie since it really
does have MySQL support built in. Though, if you keep your users
in a different way (which is LDAP in my case), xtradius is the
way to go since it can do aaa from basically anything. :)
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