(RADIATOR) Comments and Suggestions needed

[miko at yournetplus.com]

Excellent Idea,,, thanks... I'll make sure to post how testing goes...

-Miko

<----- Original Message ----->
From: Mike McCauley <mikem at open.com.au>
To: "miko at yournetplus.com" <miko at yournetplus.com>
CC: radiator at open.com.au
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 1:38:55 AM
Subject: (RADIATOR) Comments and Suggestions needed
> Hello Miko,
> 
> On Friday 18 February 2005 01:44, miko at yournetplus.com wrote:
> 
>>I think I may have found a problem, but a not sure how to test this yet.
>>In running this as a PreAuthHook there may be a potential problem for
>>configurations that have multiple AuthBys. If an AuthBy takes too much
>>time to finish before reaching the modified AuthBy Radius and another
>>packet comes in for the same Handler then the LocalAddress field could
>>potentially be changd again could it not, before the first packet has
>>finished and run through the AuthBy Radius???
> 
> 
> I think that can only happen if the intervening AuthBy is an AuthBy RADIUS.
> 
> 
>>Has there ever been a request for the ability to run a hook inside of an
>>authby???
> 
> You can run a hook in an AuthBy INTERNAL, so you could have:
> 
> <AuthBy xxxx>
> </AuthBy>
> <AuthBy INTERNAL>
> 	RequestHook .... modify LocalAddress of AuthBy RADIUS
> </AuthBy>
> </AuthBy RADIUS>
> </AuthBy>
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> 
>>-Miko
>>
>><----- Original Message ----->
>>From: Mike McCauley <mikem at open.com.au>
>>To: "miko at yournetplus.com" <miko at yournetplus.com>
>>CC: radiator at open.com.au
>>Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 12:08:08 AM
>>Subject: (RADIATOR) Comments and Suggestions needed
>>
>>
>>>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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