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 intervalsAs a result, […]
Aug 01 2007
Some people using Radius for accounting don’t know there are counters limits. Values defined in the protocol are stored in 32 bit fields meaning you will never go any higher than 4294967296 bits, that is fairly more than 4GB. If a session stays up for days, there are good chances that the counter resets to […]
Jun 11 2007
This is related to Freeradius software but can be applied to any application that needs to encrypt Mysql traffic. Freeradius is compliant to Radius protocol characteristics, which give ability to accomplish various actions, such as authenticate users. Number of caveats have been found, not related to the software but to the protocol. Joshua Hill from […]
May 07 2007
We are not trying to build a full comparative of Mysql and Postgresql in this article. This subject has been discussed many times and everyone has his own opinion on this. Some directions may be given and only a few critirias will be analysed to be used with Freeradius. Criteria If we check what’s already […]
Apr 18 2007
Important note: Heartbeat is now obsolete and has moved to a new stack available on Clusterlabs. For simple high availability project using a virtual IP, try out keepalived that does monitoring and failover with just a simple configuration file. When a Mysql server contains critical data, it’s always a good idea to rely on more […]