(RADIATOR) traffic shaping for radius requests to limit spike damage

[S H A N]

one way to address the spike is to let go all the traffic to default ACCEPT and reply a fake unroutable ip to all such ACCEPTs...

rgds,

S H A N


On Fri Jun 04, 2004 at 05:48:19PM SGT, Tariq Rashid wrote:

> 
> i wonder if anyone has experience in this or comments ...
> 
> in a test environment, we note that rare spikes of very high request rates
> seem to knock out the radius servers for a short period while they recover.
> 
> an immediate solution that comes to mind is to use traffic shaping (such as
> ALTQ) to smooth off the peaks in request traffic. that is, for normal
> request rates no traffic shaping occurs, but for higher request rates, the
> peaks are smoothed out before they reach the servers. this is more a
> preventative measure until the cause of the server knock-out is found.
> 
> has anyone done this - or have comments as to the usefulness of this method.
> 
> tariq
> 
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