[RADIATOR] Recommended hardware specifications

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Adam -

There is no hard and fast recommendation for hardware - we generally  
suggest using the hardware/software platform you are most comfortable  
with.

You should always have at a minimum two Radiator hosts, one primary  
and one secondary (geographically separated).

You can also easily improve Radiator performance by running one  
authentication instance and one accounting instance on each host.

The latest Radiator 4.3.1 patches include BETA support for a  
"ServerFarm n" directive that implements a form of controlled multi- 
threading (on *NIX platforms only).

Alternatively you can use some form of hardware or software load- 
balancing.

Hope that helps.

regards

Hugh


On 4 Mar 2009, at 04:37, Adam Armstrong wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Are there any guidelines or recommended hardware configurations for  
> ~30,000 broadband subscribers? (we'd like to account for a total  
> failure, requiring reauthentication of them all in a relatively  
> short time!)
>
> Does radiator multithread? (i recall reading that it doesn't?)  
> What's the best way to scale it?
>
> Thanks,
> adam.
>
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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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