INN Scalability
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Wed Sep 8 17:00:00 UTC 2004
Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> It's been a number of years since I've used INN, so it's been fairly
> interesting catching up with all the changes and the myriad of
> configuration files.
>
> I'm looking for some information about scaling INN to Enterprise
> levels. One obvious question is how to provide authentication for a
> large userbase (1,000 - 100,000 users). Plain text won't work :-)
> Radius might... anyone else have anything to add to that equation.
Radius works. And the radius I use is a front end for LDAP, so that
works. My auth code keeps the md5 of the id+password in an in-memory
cache, so if they open multiple streams I can avoid the auth server in
many cases.
All depends on how well the radius server(s) can keep up, of course.
--
-bill davidsen (davidsen at tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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