RE: [MeshBox-radius] Distributed Radius Project

[Mark M. <mar...@ne...>]

Oh, now you want us to architect this huh?  Why do you think we've been
screaming for help?

Ok, there are a few people on the list that understand how to make it
secure, but no one really knows how we're going to do the databases, or
get them to work.  So that's why we needed some DB guys to figure all
this stuff out.  

Imagine that we're trying to create a very large database (similar to
what NodeDB is doing for all their nodes).  Except it will store the
authentication information for each user (their login/password as well
as a lat/long, etc.)

This will allow users to roam freely between wireless communities, and
go from community to community, or state to state, or country to country
with one login, and one password.

Now how can we do this?  Initially, we'd like to create one database,
and have it mirrored to a backup server (for redundancy).  <Looking
around the room for help>

We'd like to be able to manage it from the current website (using a
web-based control panel that we currently have in place).  This allows
us to assign certain users "admin privilages" and they can
add/delete/edit users.  It also allows us to assign "classes" of users
(different levels of bandwidth throttling).  We'd also like it to
convert the user's address to a lat/long coordinate, and store it into
the database (as a lat/long).  Then as they roam around, their lat/long
is updated (based on triangulation), and automatically remapped on the
MapServer.

Let's say for now, about 5,000 users.  Is that feasible?  Maybe a year
from now, about 15,000 users.

       Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: mes...@li...
[mailto:mes...@li...] On Behalf Of Eden
Akhavi
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 3:07 PM
To: mes...@li...
Subject: [MeshBox-radius] Distributed Radius Project


Hi,

I am trying to find out what the plans are here - I have seen the
subtasks in the SF Task manager, but I am not clear on the architecture.
Has anyone architected this.

Also what is the scope of this project, how many users is the auth
database looking to scale to?

Regards




Eden



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