Re: Dedicated RADIUS authentication server

Steve Davies (steve@iafrica.com)
Tue, 26 Sep 1995 09:59:23 +0200 (GMT+0200)

On Sat, 23 Sep 1995, Brian Tao wrote:

> I would like to have a dedicated UNIX box running radiusd on our
> network to service 11 PM-2e's. It needs to handle one or two login
> events per second. How big of a machine do I need for that? Will a
> 386 or slow 486 with 8 megs of RAM handle the task?

If you are going to have a large Radius database, you will need to build
the DBM version of radiusd. If you are going to use UNIX passwords and
have a large passwd file you may need to use shadow with DBM support too.

And I'd certainly recommend that you use a 486 class machine. There will
be a lot of forking going on.

Steve