Chapter 10. Deployment Techniques

It's the do-or-die moment: it's time to deploy your AAA infrastructure. That infrastructure most likely takes the form of one or more RADIUS servers (otherwise you would probably not be reading this book). This chapter is designed to cover many of the inevitable questions that come up with regard to designing a plan to deploy RADIUS servers.

First, I'll look at configuring the typical services that are offered by ISPs and corporations to their clients and then broaden that to cover extended services that support other business models. Next, I'll discuss how to maintain the service by designing a secure, highly available network. Following that are two case studies of RADIUS implementation design. Finally, I'll provide information about other RADIUS servers, available documentation, and other resources you can use to support your RADIUS operation.