On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:10 AM, <khatfi...@socllc.net> wrote: > My personal opinion has been that we have seen great success in large > environments with FreeRadius and using radrelay for mysql synchronization > then an OpenLDAP-backend. We used FreeBSD/CARP and/or FreeVRRPd for > failover but this can be accomplished in other methods. > > FreeRadius has a built-in CLUSTERIP module which allows > clustering/load-balancing/failover or you could AnyCast the systems for > redundancy. > > As for load balancing other Radius servers which may not have it built in > - I would say a hardware solution is usually great because you get support, > etc. However, if you don't need the support then there are a ton of options > available. You could go as far as load balancing it with LVS (which I > personally do not like but MANY do :)) or software load balancers like > pen/pound/haproxy. > > Best of luck! > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Shahab Vahabzadeh" <sh.vahabza...@gmail.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 4:26pm > To: "Leigh Porter" <leigh.por...@ukbroadband.com> > Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org> > Subject: Re: OSS Systems > > Hi there again, > I think Leigh is not available this week, anybody else idea about such a > system? > Which loadbalancer is good to use? LVS or hardware one? or radius as a > proxy? > How database must be placed? How radius servers talk to DB? > And which radius server you suggest? Radiator? > Thanks > > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Leigh Porter > <leigh.por...@ukbroadband.com>wrote: > > > > > > > On 5 Jan 2012, at 22:02, "Shahab Vahabzadeh" <sh.vahabza...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi there, > > > Has anybody experience about running and OSS System in enterprise > level? > > > And do you have any idea about it? > > > For example for an ISP who is running users more than 20K or 30K, there > > > must be some good solutions to integrate all systems like: > > > Radius, Billing Systems and CRM > > > For example after searching and asking friends I have some ideas about > > > Radius to use: radiator > > > Is there anybody who has analyse such a systems before in his ISP? Need > > > sharing here :) > > > Thanks > > > > We did this a few years ago and ended up writing the while thing > > ourselves. This included billing, subscriber management etc etc. > > > > We integrates to salesforce.com for the internal front end and the user > > facing stuff we did ourselves. > > > > It was a big project and took a team of six about six months. But we > ended > > up with a perfect solution that did exactly what we needed and it was > > pretty good. > > > > It handled within the order of users you mention, but we designed to 100k > > users. > > > > We used radiator (highly recommended) with openldap back end. Multiple > > load balanced servers etc etc. > > > > The worst thing we did was to build our own mail system. Not that it was > > an issue, it never went wrong, but these days I'd just send people to > gmail > > or something. > > > > -- > > Leigh Porter > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. > > For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > -- > Regards, > Shahab Vahabzadeh, Network Engineer and System Administrator > > PGP Key Fingerprint = 8E34 B335 D702 0CA7 5A81 C2EE 76A2 46C2 5367 BF90 > > > > > > Hi there again, About this solution can anybody help about the best partition layout for these machines? For such a OSS system we need these 4 machine and having best partition layout for them is important for example maybe we need a big /var/log for Radius Server and etc.
1. Load Balancer (ipvs) 2. Radius Server (radiator/freeradius) 3. Database Server (mysqld) 4. Web Server for Billing (apache2) Thanks -- Regards, Shahab Vahabzadeh, Network Engineer and System Administrator Cell Phone: +1 (415) 871 0742 PGP Key Fingerprint = 8E34 B335 D702 0CA7 5A81 C2EE 76A2 46C2 5367 BF90
