[RADIATOR] EAPBALANCE vs HASHBALANCE and the RADIUS State Attribute

[Heikki Vatiainen]

On 08/28/2012 12:55 AM, Johnson, Neil M wrote:

> Looking at Load Balancing our RADIUS servers.
> 
> Am I correct that, according to the Manual, that one should use Authby
> HASHBALANCE  instead of Authby EAPBALANCE if my RADIUS clients don’t
> support the State Attribute ?

You are correct. If the client can not echo back State AuthEAPBALANCE
thinks the request starts a new authentication session.

If you could e.g, define a Client clause for those clients that do not
support State, you could handle those with HASHBALANCE and let
EAPBALANCE take care of clients that work correctly with State.

Thanks,
Heikki

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