I am new to this list so I must apologize if the following questions have
been answered a thousand times (is there an archive / FAQ for this list?)
We are a new nationwide internet service provider in Germany with 70+
dial-in locations throughout Germany and a targeted subscriber base of
100,000 by the end of the year. Dial-in authentication uses the RADIUS
protocol. After much trouble with a central RADIUS server (derived from
Livingston 1.16), modified to authenticate dial-in users from an Oracle
database, we now move to run our RADIUS daemons locally in the dial-in
locations (derived from Livingston 2.0). We have developed a distritbution
mechanism based on SUN/RPC and a local DBM-based cache which we currently
test-drive.
I have two questions:
a) Is there a RADIUS client software which I can use to benchmark our
implementation before putting it to production? Are there figures of how
many authentication requests a standard Livingston RADIUS daemon can
handle per second?
b) Are there commercial implementations which realize a cache/proxy
mechanism for RADIUS? How does everybody else handle RADIUS authentication
in a wide-area network?
Kind regards,
Dr. Olav Schettler tel: +49 2241 123-110
metronet fax: +49 2241 123-199
Zeithstraße 87 email: olav@metronet.de
D-53721 Siegburg www: http://www.metronet.de/~olav