[Chilli] Multiple chilli instances on the same network

[Petr Štetiar]

Emanuele Pucciarelli <ep at acm.org> [2013-01-21 08:04:59]:

Hi,

> I hope I'm not misunderstanding your question, but while the cluster
> feature (which I'm not familiar with) would theoretically improve the
> reliability of such a setup, you don't really need it to achieve what
> you're looking at. I'm using the standard roaming capabilities of
> ordinary APs with one instance of Chillispot, and it works just fine
> on a small network of 3 APs, both with 802.1x and captive portal
> authentication.

Yes, I could imagine that also, but in this setup, you've single point of
failure, right? If the AP which is running the Chilli instance goes down, then
you've a problem. What I would like to have instead, is Chilli running on all
the APs and share the client states between them, so if the user roams from
one Chilli instance to another one, he doesn't need to authenticate again.

-- ynezz