load balancing radius with F5 devices

2013-10-09 Thread Alex Sharaz
Hi, Is anyone out there load balancing RADIUS with an F5 load balancer? We're doing it here, but I can't help thinking that the actual load balancing algorithm need some tweaking. As far as I'm aware ( systems section support the F5 boxes) 1). We're using round robin to spread the load over

Re: load balancing radius with F5 devices

2013-10-09 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Alex Sharaz alex.sha...@york.ac.uk wrote: While we have 900 switches doing mac and 802.1x based auth, we can have 6000+ users on our wireless network all authenticating to RADIUS via 3 RAS clients. Looking at the back end server log files, it does look as if, in

Re: load balancing radius with F5 devices

2013-10-09 Thread Michael Schwartzkopff
Am Mittwoch, 9. Oktober 2013, 09:41:19 schrieb Alex Sharaz: Hi, Is anyone out there load balancing RADIUS with an F5 load balancer? We're doing it here, but I can't help thinking that the actual load balancing algorithm need some tweaking. As far as I'm aware ( systems section support the

Re: load balancing radius with F5 devices

2013-10-09 Thread Olivier Beytrison
On 09.10.2013 10:41, Alex Sharaz wrote: Hi, Is anyone out there load balancing RADIUS with an F5 load balancer? We're doing it here, but I can't help thinking that the actual load balancing algorithm need some tweaking. I have f5 loadbalancers but atm I don't use them for our RADIUS

Re: load balancing radius with F5 devices

2013-10-09 Thread Alex Sharaz
On 9 Oct 2013, at 10:16, Fajar A. Nugraha l...@fajar.net wrote: On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Alex Sharaz alex.sha...@york.ac.uk wrote: While we have 900 switches doing mac and 802.1x based auth, we can have 6000+ users on our wireless network all authenticating to RADIUS via 3 RAS

Re: load balancing radius with F5 devices

2013-10-09 Thread Olivier Beytrison
On 09.10.2013 11:25, Olivier Beytrison wrote: On 09.10.2013 10:41, Alex Sharaz wrote: I was wondering if there's a way off having a bit more granularity in terms of how the f5 load balances incoming RADIUS requests. Another nice thing to do is to do persistence based on radius AVP

RE: load balancing radius with F5 devices

2013-10-09 Thread Vincent, Fabien
...@lists.freeradius.org] De la part de Michael Schwartzkopff Envoyé : mercredi 9 octobre 2013 11:17 À : FreeRadius users mailing list Objet : Re: load balancing radius with F5 devices Am Mittwoch, 9. Oktober 2013, 09:41:19 schrieb Alex Sharaz: Hi, Is anyone out there load balancing RADIUS with an F5 load balancer

Re: load balancing radius with F5 devices

2013-10-09 Thread Alex Sharaz
Many thanks for this Olivier, much appreciated Rgds A On 9 Oct 2013, at 11:07, Olivier Beytrison oliv...@heliosnet.org wrote: On 09.10.2013 11:25, Olivier Beytrison wrote: On 09.10.2013 10:41, Alex Sharaz wrote: I was wondering if there's a way off having a bit more granularity in terms of