RE: [RadiusNT] cacheing bug??

wilson@dagupan.com
Sat, 8 Jan 2000 13:55:24 +0800

Thanks for the info, Peter.

I have verified that it works! (but , if you check using radlogin, remember
to include the start or stop to verify this operation. otherwise, it will
fail with t/o error)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Deacon [mailto:peterd@iea-software.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 10:00 PM
> To: radiusnt@iea-software.com
> Subject: Re: [RadiusNT] cacheing bug??
>
>
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 wilson@dagupan.com wrote:
>
> > Radius nt 3.0 has cacheing. My understanding is that this
> allows users to
> > still be authenticated from cached data , in the event of
> link failure
> > between the radius server and the radius client.
>
> > I tried to verify this if it really works. My experiment
> failed. This is how
> > i set it up:
>
> RadiusNT caches the data in your sql database to allow folks to
> authenticate and receive accounting data when it looses it's database
> connection.
>
> It doesn't cache previous authentications proxied from other radius
> servers.
>
> ciao,
> Peter
>
> > Then without changing anything, i pull the 'plug' to simulate a link
> > failure. the radius server cannot ping or trace route to
> the remote radius
> > server. I then dialup into the NAS. Authentication fails.
> On the radius -x15
> > screen, we see a lot of 'forwarding' but no response from
> the remote radius
> > server (since the link is down).
>
> > At this point, shouldnt the radius server switch over to
> the cache data and
> > authenticate the user??
>
> > btw, i enable radius nt to cache 5 days initial.
>
>
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