Re: Malformed packet and Ascend Max

Josh Hillman ( (no email) )
Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:46:16 -0400

> From: WebWiz <webwiz@atlcon.net>
> Steve, I am running 2 Ascend Max 2012(s) with 5.0Ap48 on one and 6.0.2
on
> the other and both are authenticating from a single RadiusNT2.2 machine
with
> MSSQL database, not single problem has occured here. They have been up
for a
> while now, at least since 6.0 came out.

The "malformed packet" message only shows up when using RadiusNT 2.5 -- not
2.2.

Josh Hillman
hillman@talstar.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Hillman <admin-maillist@talstar.com>
> To: RadiusNT@iea-software.com <RadiusNT@iea-software.com>
> Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 12:47 PM
> Subject: Malformed packet and Ascend Max
>
>
> >> Steve Luper wrote:
> >> > 2.5 looks good and I can do ODBC with WINNT using radlogin but when
> >> > trying to use 2.5 in conjunction with an Ascend Max 2012, I get
> >> > "Malformed packet" everytime a user tries to authenticate.
> >>
> >> From: Dale E. Reed Jr. <daler@iea-software.com>
> >> If you send me a -x15 -X capture of the packet, I'll quote the
> >> RFC telling you why its Malformed so you can send it to Ascend.
> >> You might want to check which version of AOS you are running.
> >> Anything before 5.0Ap42 is pretty problem proned.
> >
> >For the record, Maxes with 6.0.2 do the same thing. I added the
registry
> >entry and that "fixed" the problem. Have you (Dale) sent
> >support@ascend.com anything on this issue?
> >
> >Josh Hillman
> >hillman@talstar.com