FreeRADIUS and Oracle (and YPDNR)
- From: "Hostetter, Jay M" <JHostetter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 09:31:15 -0400
I was curious to know if anybody has any experience using Oracle as a
backend for FreeRADIUS. We're looking at setting up FreeRADIUS and the
administrators would like to use Oracle RAC for the backend. I'm in the
"You Probably Don't Need RAC" camp. I would prefer that the radius
boxes (there would be several) would point to separate Oracle databases
on separate boxes (all of which would contain snapshots of the
authentication data). I am told that the radius servers need to
reference a single source of accounting information (an accounting
table) so that they can verify whether or not a user is already logged
in - hence the need for RAC. I skimmed through the FreeRADIUS
documentation and I see that they allow for load balancing between
database servers. Therefore I am trying to understand if and single
accounting table is really needed, or if there is another solution. I'm
even considering a view that might tie the separate accounting tables in
the different databases together, although this could pose a problem if
one of the databases is down. I just thought I'd check to see if
anybody has experience with this product.
Thank you,
Jay Hostetter
DBA
D&E Communications
Ephrata, PA
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