Re: Dedicated RADIUS authentication server

William Bulley (web@merit.edu)
Tue, 26 Sep 1995 09:36:40 -0400 (EDT)

According to Steve Davies:
>
> 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.

You might consider the Kerberos extensions provided by the Merit
version of RADIUS. The University of Michigan has over 70,000 users
in their Kerberos database and our RADIUS servers send thousands of
requests each day to that service.

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

Both the Livingston and Merit versions have a "-s" command-line option
which prevents forking -- very useful when debugging problems BTW! :-)

Regards,

web...

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