Re: (PM) Radius (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Fri, 7 Nov 1997 05:42:06 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Danny ter Haar shaped the electrons to say...
>Why use multiple radius servers ? for performance ?

1. Redundancy. Primary dies or is isolated - falls over.

2. Sites with a LOT of POPs or with POPs widely distributed may run
muiltiple RADIUS servers to distribute the load. Say instead of one
huge server a server farm of lower powered servers. And they can be
backups for each other.

>IMHO that's not necessary

We feel that it is necessary as we have clients where this is important.
Using a real database backend allows synchronization. I think IEA's
RADIUS NT may be able to do this much.

-MZ

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