Jan 20 2008
Important note: Heartbeat is now obsolete and has moved to a new stack available on Clusterlabs. For simple high availability project using a virtual IP, try out keepalived that does monitoring and failover with just a simple configuration file. Since version 2, Heartbeat is able to manage more than 2 nodes, and doesn’t need “mon” […]
Oct 15 2007
Got an old PC or server you want to leave running in a remote place? Don’t want to bother with cables? Add a wireless card in, and configure the network service so it (re)connects automatically when the access point (re)boots. We’ve chosen a Netgear because it integrates an Atheros based chipset. They’re well supported under […]
Aug 01 2007
Some people using Radius for accounting don’t know there are counters limits. Values defined in the protocol are stored in 32 bit fields meaning you will never go any higher than 4294967296 bits, that is fairly more than 4GB. If a session stays up for days, there are good chances that the counter resets to […]
Oct 11 2006
Logging Radius accounting into Mysql database can fill up a lot of space. Some performance issues will arise at some stage as well, especially if traffic reporting scripts are to be added to the overall system. That’s why we added a new table to archive older Freeradius accounting records. Motivations We can of course delete […]
Sep 26 2006