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Re: (ASCEND) backup radius servers?
Why not just use inetd to call radiusd when needed ??? That way whether your
server goes down on a schedule or just died, either way the secondary will pick up
the load.
btw: Rdist will also copy files from server to server on a scheduled basis. And
seems to work great across our kerberized systems.
Mauricio Teixeira wrote:
> 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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