Meeting System Requirements
This section describes the hardware and software requirements for running Steel-Belted Radius Carrier on Sun hardware under the Sun Solaris 10 operating system.
Hardware
Recommended Configuration
Minimum Configuration
- Two-CPU Ultrasparc IIIi processors or better, running at 1.5 Ghz or faster.
- At least 256 Mb RAM; at least 512 Mb for servers with more than 10,000 RADIUS users.
- At least 750 Mb of local hard disk space (not NFS), including about 81 Mb of local disk space for SBR Administrator.
Use the df shell command in a terminal window to check the amount of free space available, as in Figure 1:
Software
Steel-Belted Radius Carrier server requires Sun Solaris 10 8/07 for SPARC platforms, with the appropriate patches.
Required Patches
These patches (or higher numbered equivalent patches) are required for Solaris 10:
- 117461-08
ld.so - 119254-44
patchadd - 119963-08
libC - 120753-05
libmtsk - 120900-04
libzonecfg - 121133-02
zoneadm
Recommended Patches
These patches (or higher numbered equivalent patches) are recommended for Solaris 10:
Gather the system's patch information by executing the UNIX shell command:
showrev -a |sed -e 's/Obsoletes:.*$//'
This is not a complete listing; many patches are already present because they are bundled with the Sun Solaris 10 8/07 for SPARC platforms,
Perl
Sun ships Solaris 10 with Perl 5.8.4, and Steel-Belted Radius Carrier has been tested with that version. Multiple Perl installations in discrete directories are supported, but attempting to use other versions of Perl with SBR Carrier may cause problems.
After installation, be sure that the first line of the radiusd script specifies the correct path to the Perl 5.8.4executable. For example, if Perl 5.8.4 is installed in the default location, /usr/bin/perl, then the first line of the radiusd script must be: