Re: [NTISP] Combining RadiusNT with mailserver on the same box

Richard Fink ( rfink@worldpassage.net )
Sat, 15 Jan 2000 15:51:59 -0800

A general radius question, would autenticating through a flat file of a 1000 users be slower than authenticating through NT SAM ?

-Ric

At 09:39 AM 1/15/2000 -0800, you wrote:
> > Gulam Chagani wrote:
> >
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > We are just about to install RadiusNT and Emerald onto our NT network.
> > We are having a separate box for SQL/Emerald, the question is would it
> > be OK to put RadiusNT on the same box as our mail server (NTMail)
> > which server about 2000 mail boxes, assuming we would run it off a
> > second NIC ?
>
>You could put RadiusNT on both machines, and not need a second
>NIC. RadiusNT reallys doen't have that much overhead or CPU
>use.
>
> > Also, how much delay would RRAS/RADIUS/EMERALD authentication
> > introduce as compared to a straightfoward NTSAM authentication ?
>
>Emerald is about 20 times faster than authenticating against
>the NT SAM.
>
>
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