(RADIATOR) Comments and Suggestions needed

[Mike McCauley]

Helo Miko,


On Friday 18 February 2005 00:47, miko at yournetplus.com wrote:
> Doing some experimenting lately and for our configuration we require that
> certain requests be sent out on different IP Addresses bound to our server
> when we Proxy using AuthBy Radius and AuthBy RoundRobin. Easy enough with
> the LocalAddress tag, however, we actually have several different IP
> addresses that are used, but nearly all of the AuthBy's are using
> identical information with the exception of LocalAddress. To help trim
> down maintenance time and lessen the amount of different AuthBys needed in
> the config I am trying to find a way to make LocalAddress a Dynamic value
> instead of Static. In doing some research on how you can change object
> parameters using MONITOR syntax I came up with this tidy little hook that
> I can call to do what needs to be done.
>
> PreAuthHook sub {                                     \
> my $authby = Radius::AuthGeneric::find('authbyid');   \
> $authby->set('LocalAddress','127.0.0.1');             \
> }
>
> Obviously my end script will use more dynamic references for the AuthBy
> Identifier and the IP Address being assigned, but that is the essential
> meat of the script above.
>
> So here's my question, can anyone see any caveats to doing this? and does
> anyone with a bit more programming/Radiator experience than I see any
> issues with changing the LocalAddress parameter on the fly for each radius
> packet that gets processed???

I havent tried this but I think it should work. The effect of changing the 
LocalAddress will be that AuthBy RADIUS will search for a different outbound 
socket for each LocalAddress and create it if it does not exist. 

I think it should work.

Cheers.

>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Miko
>
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