(RADIATOR) MSSQL best connection method

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Robert -

Probably the simplest and easiest thing to do in your situation is to proxy 
the radius requests to a copy of Radiator running on the MSSQL host, and then 
just use the native ODBC support there.

regards

Hugh


On Saturday 20 October 2001 01:33, Robert Blayzor wrote:
> We are currently implementing a couple of Radiator servers in our NOC
> and we will be using MSSQL stored proceedures to do both authentication
> lookups and the storing of accounting information.
>
> According to the Radiator FAQ, FreeTDS is not the recommended choice for
> obveious reasons.  I'm curious as to how many people may be using MSSQL
> for their backend but using Unix (in my case FreeBSD 4.4) as the RADIUS
> server platform.
>
> Right now my choices seem to be limited to DBI proxy or FreeTDS.  I have
> FreeTDS working for web applications via PERL, etc.  Just wondering how
> stable FreeTDS would perform in a very active RADIUS server environment.
>
> The one quirk I've always noticed is that if the connection breaks
> between FreeTDS and your MSSQL server, FreeTDS mod seems to bomb out the
> whole PERL script running.  Any work arounds or suggestions?
>
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