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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