Hardware Requirements, Installation, and Update

Minimum Hardware Requirements

FastRADIUS can be installed on a SCAT server or on a dedicated server or VM.

  1. CPU — 2 cores
  2. RAM — from 1 GB
  3. SSD — 50 GB
  4. Operating System — VEOS
  5. Network Interface Card (NIC) — 2 ports, for SSH management (+ optional IPFIX sending) and for receiving RADIUS traffic

Installation and Update

The component is included in the standard SSG software package. If used on the same server as SSG, no additional installation is required.

Further updates are performed in the standard way:

yum update fastradius

Installation on a Separate Server or VM

  1. Configure precise time synchronization via the ntpd service. NTPD configuration file: /etc/sysconfig/ntpd. To do this, install the precise time service
    yum install chrony -y
    systemctl restart chronyd
    timedatectl

    :!: When running the timedatectl command, the System clock synchronized parameter must have the value yes

  2. Connect the vasexperts repository
    rpm --import http://vasexperts.ru/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-vasexperts.ru
    rpm -Uvh http://vasexperts.ru/centos/6/x86_64/vasexperts-repo-2-1.noarch.rpm
  3. Install FastRADIUS
    yum install fastradius
  4. Start the service
    systemctl start fastradius
  5. Enable service autostart at boot
    systemctl enable fastradius
  6. Check the status (should be running)
    systemctl status fastradius

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