RE: Cisco and Concurrency Control

Mitchell B. Wagers ( (no email) )
Fri, 06 Feb 1998 11:20:09 -0800

11.2(8) does not have this problem. As I said before, it also does not in
any way effect accounting.

At 05:30 PM 2/6/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Maybe this is not a violation but Cisco says :
>
>The IOS RADIUS implementation will generate accounting requests with
>ACCT-
>STATUS-TYPE =3 (watchdog/update), which has been deprecated in the
>current radius specification. [CSCdi62320]
>
>http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios111/111bugs/
>111cav.htm
>
>and there is another document about 11.2 version
>http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios112/112cav.h
>tm
>which reports same bug for 11.2
>
>Regards,
>Hakan ISIKHAN
>
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>>From: Mitchell B. Wagers[SMTP:mwagers@ocsnet.net]
>>Sent: Thursday, February 05, 1998 10:48 PM
>>To: RadiusNT@iea-software.com
>>Subject: Re: Cisco and Concurrency Control
>>
>>That does not violate the RFC, no where in the RFC does it say they must
>>only be 1 or 2, just that it must send a Start/Stop pair for the user.
>>However, this problem was fixed in 11.2(x) releases of the IOS and you will
>>need to upgrade to that IOS to get things working.
>>The AcctStatusType=3 is pretty simple to get around and doesn't in any way
>>effect accounting, it *was* just Cisco's way of saying the user was online,
>>so you had to modify the CallsOnline query to use AcctStatusType=1 or 3...
>>Cisco no longer does the AcctStatusType=3.
>>
>>Please upgrade your IOS and see what happens.
>>
>>
>>At 07:47 PM 2/5/98 +0200, you wrote:
>>>Hi ,
>>>Is there anybody suffering concurrency control with
>>>Cisco 5100 Access Servers ? We are getting so much stop packets
>>>with username=null.. (our Cisco IOS version is 11.1.8). Also
>>>Cisco sends lots of packets with Acc Status Type = 3 which violates
>>>RFC.(1 for start, 2 for stop , 3 for ???)
>>>
>>>Thanks for any comment.
>>>
>>>Hakan ISIKHAN
>>>
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