Re: remote gateway

Zitat von Kevin Hawkins <[email protected]>:

> I have a two part question.
>
> 1st is what do I need to do so that I can have a
> remote gateway that talkes to the authinication server
> across the internet. IE location 1 is in calf. and the
> auth server resides in Alabama?
>
> The next question is how many remote gateways can I
> have setup? for one auth server like the above
> sinario. I know that it will depend on the load that I
> am putting across it I am just looking for a round
> figure.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kevin

hi kevin,

as far as i understand, the gateway(s) and authserv can be on different
locations. the communication between them is done with GPG signed cleartext
messages containing a token, what means it should be safe against replay
attacks; but it is not a secret who gets authenticated and when.

there can be multiple gateways using the same authserv. the load on the authserv
depends on the total number of users per time, no matter on how many gateways
they are.

HTH, regards

ulric