Re: [Emerald] I need your help!!!! AGAIN!!!

Geoff ( (no email) )
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 19:52:09 -0800

So if I have thirty remote sites then Emerald is not the programm that I
should be using? I do not have a computer or bandwidth problem. It is just
common sense to not send something over the Net if you do not have to. We
should be able to run Authentication anywhere and send the accounting to one
central location.. It cuts down traffic and takes the load off of the
Accounting server.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dale E. Reed Jr. <daler@iea-software.com>
To: emerald@iea-software.com <emerald@iea-software.com>
Date: Thursday, March 11, 1999 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Emerald] I need your help!!!! AGAIN!!!

>> montesite wrote:
>>
>> I have Emerald installed on a computer at our main office. I have my
>> modems at two different locations that are remote. In order to better
>> serve I would like to move the Authentication process off of the Main
>> Emerald server and onto machines at the remote sites. I am allready
>
>RADIUS is a very small footprint protocol. You are better of by far
>keeping your RADIUS servers local to your SQL Server (RADIUS traffic
>over the WAN) than putting the RADIUS server on the otherside of the
>WAN (SQL traffic over the WAN).
>
>> replicating to these two sites to backup my Emerald. So, I install
>> Radius at one of the remote sites and tell it to use the replicated
>> emerald for authentication and the Main site emerald for accounting.
>
>This will not work, and we do not currently support split DSNs with
>Emerald.
>
>> Here is the problem. As soon as I turn Radius on " -x15" it starts
>> flashing stuff by at warp speed. So I hit "control c" It seems to be
>> finding everything stored in cache on the NAS's or something and I get
>> an ODBC error that a duplicate key is being sent to the table
>> "calls". What is going on here? I thought the darn thing would just
>> start authenticating. When I watch it in SQL Trace it shows as a test
>> being sent continuously.
>
>First, you could have a WAN speed issue that is causing the accounting
>to be too slow. Ascend defaults the Accounting timeout to 1 second,
>which definately would cause problems here. Secondly, you might
>check your query timeout, as it might be causing the test to fail.
>
>I would really recommend changing back to how you originally had it,
>as that is the recommending configuration.
>
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>
>Dale E. Reed Jr. Emerald and RadiusNT
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