[RADIATOR] Multithreading Radiator in Windows Server 2008/2012

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Alan -

Yes absolutely - you typically want authentication to operate as quickly as possible, and its usually a fairly lightweight lookup operation.

Accounting on the other hand is less time-critical and usually involves more processing to store the records.

Therefore it makes sense to have these operations running in separate processes.

Ie.

….

# Authentication Instance Configuration
# Listen for authentication requests only

AuthPort	1645, 1812

AcctPort

…..

….

# Accounting Instance Configuration
# Listen for accounting requests only

AuthPort

AcctPort	1646, 1813

…..

regards

Hugh


> On 17 Oct 2015, at 23:39, Alan Buxey <A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> >BTW - it is generally a good idea to >have separate authentication and >accounting instances as well (ie. one >Windows service for authentication on >1645 and/or 1812, and another >Windows service for accounting on >1646 and/or 1813).
> 
> I'm guessing this is also true for Unix/linux/solaris installs too?
> 
> alan


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