The brief outage was due to a scheduled move of the servers to a separate rack and subnet dedicated to our work with the Center for Information Assurance & Cybersecurity (ciac) at the University of Washington Bothell (uwb), and a11y.com

I am currently exercising the new (to us) equipment and hope to winnow the less than awesome equipment over the next quarter. I spent the last six months finding the best in breed of the surplussed DL385 and DL380 chassis we (work) were going to have recycled. The team and I were able to find enough equipment to bring up one of each with eight and six gigs of memory, respectively. These will make excellent hypervisors for provisioning embedded instances of Slackware, Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Debian, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, OpenIndiana, FreeDOS, etc.

When I initially configured this xen paravirt environment, I failed to plan for integration with libvirt, so I am now re-jiggering the software bridges so …

As network use grows and services become more dynamic, so existing Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) environments can struggle to keep pace with demand.

Tune into this webinar where you can hear from the Alan Dekok, one of the founders of the FreeRADIUS project and CEO of Network RADIUS, discuss the concepts and implementation of RADIUS services using the FreeRADIUS server and the MySQL Cluster database to deliver highly available and scalable AAA services.

As always, this webinar is free and you can register here. I will be manning the Q&A during the webinar.

In this session, you will learn about:

• potential AAA limitations as network environments grow
• advantages of deploying FreeRADIUS with MySQL Cluster
• Performance, sizing and deployment of an AAA environment using …

As network use grows and services become more dynamic, so existing Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) environments can struggle to keep pace with demand.

Tune into this webinar where you can hear from the Alan Dekok, one of the founders of the FreeRADIUS project and CEO of Network RADIUS, discuss the concepts and implementation of RADIUS services using the FreeRADIUS server and the MySQL Cluster database to deliver highly available and scalable AAA services.

As always, this webinar is free and you can register here. I will be manning the Q&A during the webinar.

In this session, you will learn about:

• potential AAA limitations as network environments grow
• advantages of deploying FreeRADIUS with MySQL Cluster
• Performance, sizing and deployment of an AAA environment using …

MySQL/Sun have releases a new white paper…

Do you want to ensure that your Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) infrastructure will scale to support your business growth? As network use grows and services become more dynamic, limitations can occur which add administrative overhead, inhibit flexible scaling and impact the timely synchronization of data across the AAA environment. To address these challenges, Sun has collaborated with the FreeRADIUS server team, the most widely deployed RADIUS server in the world, to integrate the carrier-grade, real-time MySQL Cluster database with the FreeRADIUS Server. Delivering Scalable Authentication Services: Get the whitepaper now! Attend Webinar Download our free whitepaper “Delivering Scalable and Highly Available Authentication, Authorization and Accounting Services” now to better understand: • The concepts of current data storage solutions for AAA environments and their …

Scalable, Highly Available RADIUS solution using FreeRADIUS and MySQL Cluster

Before a client can start to access and consume services on a network, they must first be Authenticated to the network and then Authorized to use the services they are entitled too.  Their consumption of network resources then needs to be captured via the Accounting processes.  Collectively, Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) is a cornerstone of today’s network security, management and in many cases, monetization. RADIUS is a standard protocol to implement this AAA service.

As these networks grow, limitations can occur which add administrative overhead, inhibit flexible scaling and impact the timely synchronization of data across the AAA environment.

Using MySQL Cluster as the data store for a RADIUS server makes …