(RADIATOR) FW: Load Balancing

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Harrison -

No - seconds only are supported.

regards

Hugh


On Monday 10 September 2001 17:23, Harrison Ng wrote:

> > BTW, can those time related parameters accepts milliseconds, such as
> RetryTimeout, FailureBackoffTime.
>
> Harrison
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Harrison Ng
> > Sent:	Monday, September 10, 2001 3:21 PM
> > To:	'radiator at open.com.au'
> > Subject:	Load Balancing
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are using Ericsson GSN, the primary and secondary failover timer in
> > GSN is restricted to merely 6 seconds. After these 6 secs, it drops the
> > call.
> >
> > So our radiator server need to respond very fast, I mean fast in doing
> > username/password authentication, accounting logging, ip address
> > allocation and forward accounting information to 3rd party business
> > partners and reply back to GSN at last. If we divide 6 secs into 2
> > halves, there will be only 3 secs for primary radius, and 3 secs for
> > secondary radius.
> >
> > Our first question is it possible to change the behaviour (perhaps an
> > extra parameter) of <AuthBy ROUNDROBIN, VOLUMEBALANCE, LOADBALANCE> so
> > that when radius proxy does not receive response from the first radius
> > server, then just stop it and let the radius server marked failure and
> > reply nothing to GSN. Let the radius server sit still until
> > FailureBackupoffTime is reached. Do not even try to forward request to
> > the second listed, until the list is exhausted.
> >
> > Second can we set the timeout value (perhaps to zero) for the very first
> > accounting forward packet. The RetryTimeout only suitable for
> > retransmitting packet. Lost accounting packet is not a concern to us, as
> > long as the radius server work very fast.
> >
> > We tried optimize every things such as using radius proxy to distribute
> > loading to several radius server, put database server in another unix
> > box, field indexing, lots of memory and etc. Maybe our question is a bit
> > strange. Perhaps someone can suggest us a workaround. Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Harrison
> > SmarTone BroadBand Services Ltd.

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