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May 30 2009

Daily Accounting in Freeradius

Published by dave under Cisco, Freeradius

We have seen a few posts on Freeradius user list and other forums asking how to collect accounting periodically. The Radius protocol provides accounting but not in the way that many would like. Here’s a short list of things we would like to modify or improve:

Traffic is not collected at regular intervals
As a result, it [...]

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Jul 26 2008

Mysql Ultra-Fast Backup with LVM

Published by dave under Mysql

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 [...]

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Jul 22 2008

Freeradius IP Pools

Published by dave under Freeradius

 

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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