Primary & Secondary Radius Servers (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Tue, 5 Nov 1996 18:34:03 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Darren G. Ellis shaped the electrons to say...
>Can someone out there tell me how the primary and secondary servers work?
>More specifically, if the primary server is used for authenticating the
>user, the primary default host is used if required. If the primary does
>not find the user, and the secondary does, is the primary default host
>assigned or is the secondary default host assigned?

The secondary RADIUS server is called ONLY if the first does not respond.
If the first server doesn't have the user, it still respondes with a NAK
and the user is blocked. So you can't use this to have two RADIUS servers
called for different users.

>The goal here is to have two separate domains running on the same
>hardware. If a caller belongs to domain 1, machine 1 is assigned as
>default host. If a caller belongs to domain 2, she will not be found by
>server 1, but will be found by server 2, and machine 2 is assigned as
>default host.

You can do this with one RADIUS server. Each user can have the host
specified that they connect to.

-MZ

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