Re: Serving >80000 users with RADIUS

Mike Wilson (mwilson@flash.net)
Thu, 23 Jan 1997 15:10:03 +0000

> 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.

> - 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?

We're a few numbers above that mark and we use RADIUS 2.0 DBM,
two sparc 5's (primary / secondary setup). We have the users file
converted using the builddbm and have a default record to catch those
users added that day to the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow records. The
load on the boxes is about 3% cpu utilization... Im not sure what the
exact auth time is in milliseconds but it works pretty dang quickly
:)

I estimate that the sparc 5's will handle well above this number
since the packet/cpu load is so small at this point...

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