[MeshBox-radius] RE: MeshBox-radius digest, Vol 1 #8 - 1 msg

[shaitan <sh...@cl...>]

Hi Guys,

I know my way around mysql and am vaguely familiar with radius packages.
I have came across the following docco which should do what we need
regarding using a db for the authentication info.

http://www.frontios.com/freeradius.html

To answer your questions mark, its not the amount of records that is
going to be the issue as such, but more the delay in authenticating
users across the net, so would I would suggest is that every mesh node
have a local copy of the data for their region. Maybe split the users
into geographical groups, and if you server resides in the coverage area
for this group, then it will cache this data.

What do you reckon?

Cheers

Ray

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> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 18:43:58 -0600
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> 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
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> 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?
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> Regards
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> Eden
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