[28951] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: pop server in an ISP environment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Butler)
Fri May 26 09:59:58 2000
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 09:58:14 -0400
From: John Butler <john.butler@netrail.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <20000526173743.J5100@mail-sg.siemens.com.sg>; from Muljawan Hendrianto on Fri, May 26, 2000 at 05:37:43PM +0800
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Thus spake Muljawan Hendrianto (muljawan.hendrianto@siemens.com.sg):
> Another issue is high availability, does any body use server clustering in an ISP environment?
> I am thinking about having a Sun Cluster for these pop servers, but will I need a special HA agent ?
Stick a bunch of them behind a server load balancer like a
Foundry ServerIron or an F5. Then you don't have to worry about
who the server vendor is. Then you can use FreeBSD boxen for the
servers and save a chonka dough.
> What about LDAP for user's authentication ? Is it recommended to use ?
I haven't used LDAP yet, but have you looked into RADIUS? I think LDAP
is newer, so it might have better features, but as I recall, both are
open standards, and open standards should always prevail.
Regards,
--John
