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Re: keberos authentication with tacacs ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Kovara)
Sun May 5 20:36:44 1996

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 05 May 1996 22:41:20 GMT
From: joek@CyberSafe.com (Joe Kovara)

hartmans@MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman) in comp.protocols.kerberos wrote:
>	Why?  Be aware that Kerberos does *not* perform load balancing
>with slave servers; they are used for increased availability only.  If
>the master is up, it is used for all requests.

Kerberos doesn't specify how servers are utilized in this respect.  Load
balancing (or not) is a function of the implementation.  Most implementations
don't (CyberSafe's does).





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