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Re: (ASCEND) backup radius servers?



On Fri, 15 May 1998, Leon McCalla wrote:

> is there such a thing as a caching radius server? I want to be able to allow
> my users to authenticate during the scheduled weekly 20 min server reboot.

	How about trying this:

	1 - Build a secondary server (if you don't already have one);
	2 - Install Radius on the secondary server, with same config as
the primary;
	3 - Make a cron call to start Radius on sec machine at the same
time and date the primary goes down (a good thing would be reseting the
NAS before shuting down the 1st server to make sure radius accounting
closes nice);
	4 - Configure you NAS to call the secondary radius server if the
first one does not answer;
	5 - Make a cron call on sec machine to kill radius (also reseting
NAS before) by the time you think the first one came back (20 min?).

	Well.. This is my first idea, maybe you should improve it... Also,
reseting the NAS is optional, but if you use accounting, the users logged
in at the time the first machine shuts down won't have their time count
closed. Oh! Almost forgot: think about something that copies the user
passwords from one server to another... I can't think about anything than
ftp transfer... :(

	Any comments? :)

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