May 30 2009
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 [...]
Jul 26 2008
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 [...]
Jul 22 2008
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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