Netexpertise

It is generally good practice to respect the two following points when backing up databases. The backup has to be:

consistent
fast

Consistency is easily achieved putting a read lock on all tables beforehands. However, this isn’t always applied, and WILL definately lead to a database integrity problem at some stage.
Once a lock has been set on the [...]

Tags: backup, fast, linux, lock, logical, LVM, manager, Mysql, snapshot, volume

If you wonder if you should use rlm_ippool or rlm_sqlippool to turn your Radius into a "DHCP" server, read on!

 
rlm_ippool

We first configured Freeradius to provide IP addresses through the ippool module. IPs are stored internally in a binary data file.
 
 
radiusd.conf

ippool main_pool {
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Tags: Freeradius, ip, linux, Mysql, pool, radclient, radius, release, SQL