(RADIATOR) radiator and server virtualisation

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Carlos, Hello Jose -

I agree - I tend to use this approach extensively in my consulting  
practice. You can think of it as controlled multi-threading.

I almost always find that a design with a simple "front-end" instance  
proxying to 3 or 4 or 5 simple "back-end" instances works well.

The "front-end" instance classifies requests according to whatever  
criteria are appropriate, then proxies those requests to the  
corresponding "back-end" instances.

As Jose says, this approach can also use separate authentication and  
accounting instances for the "front-end" and the "back-ends".

I also tend to use a load-balancer in front of two groups of Radiator  
hosts (primary and secondary), each of which has identical  
configurations as described above.

hope that helps

regards

Hugh


On 1 Feb 2008, at 05:06, Jose Borges Ferreira wrote:

> If you mean virtual server,as in full virtual server  
> (Xen,VMWare,etc ) , yes but it's not the best solution.
>
> The best solution, imho, is to have multiple instances of Radiator  
> running on different ports.
> You can even have one "master" server  act as proxy /load balancer   
> to the others instances. Actually you can have two, one for  
> authentication and other for accounting.
>
> José Borges Ferreira
>
> On Jan 31, 2008 5:31 PM, onrubia carlos <carlos.onrubia at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Has anybody any experience with several radiator instance running  
> on several virtual servers on one physical host?
> We plan to use this solution to better use the server capacity.
>
> Thanks for any feedback,
>
> Carlos,
>



NB:

Have you read the reference manual ("doc/ref.html")?
Have you searched the mailing list archive (www.open.com.au/archives/ 
radiator)?
Have you had a quick look on Google (www.google.com)?
Have you included a copy of your configuration file (no secrets),
together with a trace 4 debug showing what is happening?
Have you checked the RadiusExpert wiki:
http://www.open.com.au/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

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