Re: RADIUS & secondary server

Michael G (mike@thenet.net)
Mon, 22 Apr 1996 22:45:23 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Dale E. Reed Jr. wrote:

> > >Does the radius software allow for backup, so that it will update the files
> > >on both systems, and will the authenitcation process be updated on both
> > >systems, does anybody have any suggestions ot ideas.
>
> > Updating the users file can be done with a simple cron job from the primary
> > machine
> > to the secondary machine either through rcp or some other method of transfer
>
> One of the benefits of running the RadiusNT package with ODBC
> extensions is
> that it hits a common Database. Because of this model you can
> have many
> RadiusNT servers doing accounting and authentication do a common
> database.
> This includes the ability to do concurrent lockout of accounts
> up to date,
> even if the primary authentication or accounting server goes
> down. There
> is no syncronization of the data, as its always live.
>
> Putting this together with a Database Server which has some
> built in
> fault tolerant and fail-over capabilities, and you have a very
> solid
> and flexible Radius system.
>
>
> --
> Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea.com)
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Any idea if this would be availabe in a unix platform sometime..or is it
available now?

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