How do I BEST deal with the fall-through to the next
radius if the first fails?
Randy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Hugh Irvine
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 6:14 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Randy Cosby; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) Merged ISP's
>
>
>
> Hello Randy -
>
> On Fri, 12 May 2000, Randy Cosby wrote:
> > We recently merged with a couple smaller ISP's. Currently one
> is running
> > off RadiusNT, another off of a livingston radius. I would like
> to have all
> > our dialup pops pointing to just one radius eventually. The
> first logical
> > step seems to be using Radius as a proxy for all the other
> radius servers.
> >
> > Users do not log in with realms. So we might have a user
> "smith" on two or
> > more of the radius servers.
> >
> > What's the best way to deal with this? I can think of some ways to do a
> > fallthrough based on a "primary" radius being that of the
> original ISP, then
> > down to the others if it fails, but we might get into some real problems
> > with slow responses from the other radius servers bogging down our
> > radiator.
> >
> > I'm sure I'm not the first to tackle this. Any hints?
> >
>
> You've got a couple of options. The first would be to use the
> "DefaultRealm"
> parameter in your Client clauses if the different NAS's correspond to the
> different original ISP's, then you could use normal Realms with
> corresponding
> AuthBy RADIUS clauses to proxy the requests. Alternatively, you
> could have the
> different groups calling different phone numbers at the PoP's,
> and then set up
> Handler's corresponding to the different Called-Station-Id's with the same
> AuthBy RADIUS clauses as above for proxying.
>
> hth
>
> Hugh
>
>
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