[RP-PPPoE] rp-pppoe + 2 freeradius

[Tiago]

Hello Mike,
Here is the crazy thing... my first in order freeradius server is the
newer already that was disabled since God knows when, but I would
expect that when I put it online it should start to get requests, and
its not happening :/





2012/7/3 Insane Laughing Clown <mike-rppppoe at tiedyenetworks.com>:
> On 07/03/2012 11:36 AM, Tiago wrote:
>>
>> Hello guys,
>> I've a rp-pppoe + freeradius + mysql server in production, and now I
>> would like to add a new freeradius server to distribute/load balance
>> auth requests or to work as failover. I already have the new
>> freeradius online and working ok.
>>
>> I've added to my /etc/radiusclient/servers my both IPs:ports and
>> shared secret. From my pppoe-server I can communicate using radtest to
>> my new freeradius server.
>>
>> However, I'm only getting requests to my old freeradius... so what am
>> I missing??? Is there anything else I need to do to enable
>> distributing requests?
>>
>
> This is in reference to radiusclient, which is part of PPPd. As I understand
> it, in practice, pppd-radius uses the servers in the given order and does
> not 'load balance' or 'distribute' requests across servers. I can be wrong
> about this however (this is just my indirect observation, so YMMV). Here's a
> question however - can you disable the first freeradius server and observe
> requests timing out and then going to the second? If so, then I'd have to
> say you are configured correctly and seeing the expected result.
>
> -ILC
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