[148466] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OSS Systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (khatfield@socllc.net)
Sun Jan 15 18:41:02 2012
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:40:11 -0500 (EST)
From: khatfield@socllc.net
To: "Shahab Vahabzadeh" <sh.vahabzadeh@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGqGmqZbaKcuBe8hx_jWKnkN4wydRz66DoGKyuAYJr3rt_zhMA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
My personal opinion has been that we have seen great success in large envir=
onments with FreeRadius and using radrelay for mysql synchronization then a=
n OpenLDAP-backend. We used FreeBSD/CARP and/or FreeVRRPd for failover but =
this can be accomplished in other methods.=0A=0AFreeRadius has a built-in C=
LUSTERIP module which allows clustering/load-balancing/failover or you coul=
d AnyCast the systems for redundancy. =0A=0AAs for load balancing other Rad=
ius servers which may not have it built in - I would say a hardware solutio=
n is usually great because you get support, etc. However, if you don't need=
the support then there are a ton of options available. You could go as far=
as load balancing it with LVS (which I personally do not like but MANY do =
:)) or software load balancers like pen/pound/haproxy.=0A=0ABest of luck!=
=0A=0A-----Original Message-----=0AFrom: "Shahab Vahabzadeh" <sh.vahabzadeh=
@gmail.com>=0ASent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 4:26pm=0ATo: "Leigh Porter" <l=
eigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>=0ACc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>=0ASu=
bject: Re: OSS Systems=0A=0AHi there again,=0AI think Leigh is not availabl=
e this week, anybody else idea about such a=0Asystem?=0AWhich loadbalancer =
is good to use? LVS or hardware one? or radius as a=0Aproxy?=0AHow database=
must be placed? How radius servers talk to DB?=0AAnd which radius server y=
ou suggest? Radiator?=0AThanks=0A=0AOn Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Leigh P=
orter=0A<leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>wrote:=0A=0A>=0A>=0A> On 5 Jan 2012, =
at 22:02, "Shahab Vahabzadeh" <sh.vahabzadeh@gmail.com>=0A> wrote:=0A>=0A> =
> Hi there,=0A> > Has anybody experience about running and OSS System in en=
terprise level?=0A> > And do you have any idea about it?=0A> > For example =
for an ISP who is running users more than 20K or 30K, there=0A> > must be s=
ome good solutions to integrate all systems like:=0A> > Radius, Billing Sys=
tems and CRM=0A> > For example after searching and asking friends I have so=
me ideas about=0A> > Radius to use: radiator=0A> > Is there anybody who has=
analyse such a systems before in his ISP? Need=0A> > sharing here :)=0A> >=
Thanks=0A>=0A> We did this a few years ago and ended up writing the while =
thing=0A> ourselves. This included billing, subscriber management etc etc.=
=0A>=0A> We integrates to salesforce.com for the internal front end and the=
user=0A> facing stuff we did ourselves.=0A>=0A> It was a big project and t=
ook a team of six about six months. But we ended=0A> up with a perfect solu=
tion that did exactly what we needed and it was=0A> pretty good.=0A>=0A> It=
handled within the order of users you mention, but we designed to 100k=0A>=
users.=0A>=0A> We used radiator (highly recommended) with openldap back en=
d. Multiple=0A> load balanced servers etc etc.=0A>=0A> The worst thing we d=
id was to build our own mail system. Not that it was=0A> an issue, it never=
went wrong, but these days I'd just send people to gmail=0A> or something.=
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