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Martin_Sharratt
Nimbostratus
Feb 24, 2015Radius load balancing not balancing
We've got a pair of LTMs (running 11.5.0) and I've been trying to set up load balancing for our radius servers which are authenticating our wireless traffic. We're using FreeRadius. We're using MSCH...
Martin_Sharratt
Nimbostratus
Mar 19, 2015Late breaking - just discovered eapol_test. Now if I can get it to work and script it I may still be able to replicate the problem ....
Will post more - hopefully - tomorrow
Martin_Sharratt
Nimbostratus
Mar 25, 2015Latest:
Unable to replicate problem with eapol_test on test system - load balanced perfectly even under quite heavy load. When I tried datagram LB and parstitence on avp it generally didn't load balance or broke altogether.
So, yesterday during a maintenance period, I activated datagram LB and avp persistence profile (using attribute 1) and so far all seems good. The load is roughly equally balanced between the two radius servers (< 5% difference on bits) and has been for the last 24 hours.
I agree with you however that we may still have a problem - probably with our wireless controllers as I don't think they should be sending varying numbers of requests. I suspect it may be load - we have considerably increased our number of access points over the past 6 months - or the number of separate devices in the chain (user device->wap->wireless controller->F5->radius server->AD controller). So, I think we need to look at that in more detail
But it looks like the initial problem is resolved. Thanks very much for your advice and support
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