Re: Global address pool

--===============0282885323==
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_Part_61922_7824572.1165533998049"

------=_Part_61922_7824572.1165533998049
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

from what I've seen on the lists, sqlippool is full of bugs and holes. If
you're planning to put it into a production environment, I'd strongly
suggest booking a coder for a couple of days :-) Such is the nature of
open-source I guess.

There is no other truly feasable way of leasing IPs over multiple servers,
other than Rsync'ing the pool files, or manually assigning different RADIUS
servers for different pools - the second means that you are basically
splitting your system into multiple independent groups - several NASes to
one RADIUS server. However, both of these are hacks.

I'm using rlm_ippool at the moment on a multi-nas basis, as I have had both
two NASes getting IPs assigned to users from a single shared pool, and also
one-pool-per-NAS. Both work fine.

It's your choice really - you can always just use one-pool-per-NAS and
manually assign each NAS to a RADIUS server responsible for maintaining the
pool, while you're getting sqlippool up to production standards.

Hope this helps,

Jan

On 07/12/06, Paul Khavkine <paul.khavkine@distributel.ca> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Hi folks.
>
>
> I'm looking into ways to implement a "global address pool" for multiple
> NASes and multiple RADIUS servers.
>
> I see that there's 2 possible ways of doing it with FreeRADIUS.
>
> 1) use rlm_ippool
> 2) use rlm_sqlippool
>
> I'm leaning towards rlm_sqlippool since it can be used to "lease" an
> address to a subscriber for a period of time
> so they get same ip address for the duration of the "lease".
>
> Is there any other ways to implement NAS independent address pool and be
> able to "lease" same address to a subscriber ?
>
> Is anyone using sqlippool in production ?
>
> Thanx
> Paul
>
> -
> List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See
> http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
>
>

------=_Part_61922_7824572.1165533998049
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

from what I've seen on the lists, sqlippool is full of bugs and holes. If you're planning to put it into a production environment, I'd strongly suggest booking a coder for a couple of days :-) Such is the nature of open-source I guess.
<br><br>There is no other truly feasable way of leasing IPs over multiple servers, other than Rsync'ing the pool files, or manually assigning different RADIUS servers for different pools - the second means that you are basically splitting your system into multiple independent groups - several NASes to one RADIUS server. However, both of these are hacks.
<br><br>I'm using rlm_ippool at the moment on a multi-nas basis, as I have had both two NASes getting IPs assigned to users from a single shared pool, and also one-pool-per-NAS. Both work fine.<br><br>It's your choice really - you can always just use one-pool-per-NAS and manually assign each NAS to a RADIUS server responsible for maintaining the pool, while you're getting sqlippool up to production standards.
<br><br>Hope this helps,<br><br>Jan<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 07/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Khavkine</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:paul.khavkine@distributel.ca">paul.kh avkine@distributel.ca</a>&gt; wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">






<div>

<br>
<br>
<br>

<p><font size="2">Hi folks.<br>
<br>
<br>
I'm looking into ways to implement a &quot;global address pool&quot; for multiple NASes and multiple RADIUS servers.<br>
<br>
I see that there's 2 possible ways of doing it with FreeRADIUS.<br>
<br>
1) use rlm_ippool<br>
2) use rlm_sqlippool<br>
<br>
I'm leaning towards rlm_sqlippool since it can be used to &quot;lease&quot; an address to a subscriber for a period of time<br>
so they get same ip address for the duration of the &quot;lease&quot;.<br>
<br>
Is there any other ways to implement NAS independent address pool and be able to &quot;lease&quot; same address to a subscriber ?<br>
<br>
Is anyone using sqlippool in production ?<br>
<br>
Thanx<br>
Paul<br>
</font>
</p>

</div>

<br>-<br>List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html" target="_blank">http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html</a><br><br>
</blockquote></div><br>

------=_Part_61922_7824572.1165533998049--

--===============0282885323==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

-
List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
--===============0282885323==--