Re: Serving >80000 users with RADIUS

William Bulley (web@merit.edu)
Thu, 23 Jan 1997 10:50:04 -0500 (EST)

According to Frank Heinzius:
>
> a customer wants to serve more than 80000 dialin customers with one
> RADIUS database.
>
> Several PM3s will be connected with 64k digital leased lines to the
> central office, where the RADIUS database is located.
>
> The question is:
>
> - how to handle 80000 users (does .dbm and Livingston RADIUS 2.0 handle
> this?)
> - is it better to use RADIUS NT with ODBC and SQL-based databse?
> - is it better to use a distributed RADIUS db with Merit?
> - anybody out there who works with similar configurations and many users?

I would suggest a combination of distributed RADIUS and Kerberos such
as what we use in MichNet in Michigan (USA), but of course I'm slightly
biased in this respect... ;^)

We routinely handle over 100,000 sessions (attempts to authenticate)
each day! The University of Michigan Kerberos database alone has over
70,000 entries in it and we have literally hundreds of other affiliates
(what some would call customers) consisting of colleges, libraries,
small and large commercial firms, government stuff, etc., etc.

The amazing thing is that it all works! :-)

Regards,

web...

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William Bulley, N8NXN              Senior Systems Research Programmer
Merit Network, Inc.                Email: web@merit.edu
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