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Jason_L_40779
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Oct 22, 2010

Radius Load Balancing

We use Radius authentication for our corporate wireless users. I'm looking at load balancing our radius servers for our wireless controllers. We had an issue recently where one of the radius serve...
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pdawson1983
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Mar 24, 2017

I would suggest looking into using a RADIUS service profile. I would think that using the Datagram LB option might cause different parts of the RADIUS process to go to different servers.

 

"The BIG-IP system includes a profile type that you can use to load balance Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) traffic. When you configure a RADIUS type of profile, the BIG-IP system can send client-initiated RADIUS messages to load balancing servers. The BIG-IP system can also ensure that those messages are persisted on the servers." Taken from Here.