Hi Heikki,

Thanks for responding, much appreciated!

> > - Running a separate farm (of let’s say 8) that deals only with outgoing
> > Radsec, and having to fiddle our config to tell our 64-size farm to
> > connect internally to the farm of 8 to deal with the traffic.
>
> I'd consider this one of two options: the other is to check if there's
> soemthing in the current configuration that allows dropping the farm
> size to a smaller number. I guess you have already looked at the
> possible changes. Is it logging, DB lookups or something else that makes
> the througput per packet slow?

In our case it's sheer volume. We're one of the larger deployments of this type 
in the world, so we're looking at around 148 million authentications (that 
could be resolved/routed) last month. We've reduced our farm sizes already, but 
that's mostly RADIUS, not Radsec.

> The latter, separate workers for outgoing RadSec, is likely the way to
> go unless there's something that can be done to speedup the current
> configuration which would allow reducing the farm size.

Ok, so effectively for those organisations using Radsec (i.e. us initiating 
Radsec connections to them), use a 'bogus' host (localhost on a specific port 
to refer to the Radsec-only Radiator instance) that does a 
localhost-to-localhost translation to Radsec?

> An option could also be Radiator 10 which is built differently and does
> parallel processing completely differently. It's made with Rust and has
> different architecture. It's faster and still catching up with features.
> We could arrange a demo to discuss if it could be a possibility.

This could be an option... how different are the configuration files between 
Radiator 10 (Rust) and Radiator 4 (Perl) given that we have a host of 
Perl-defined hooks to do some special/specific processing?

With kind regards

Stefan Paetow
Federated Roaming Technical Specialist
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