RE: USR NetServer x USR NetServer Plus

Chris Thomas ( (no email) )
Sun, 14 Jun 1998 11:32:15 +0800

Have you checked the output from running RadiusNT in debug mode. We found
that the Netserver Plus was sending a larger than normal session ID, and as
a result, the field wasn't large enough and the record was rejected.
Checkout the debug errors and see if this is your problem.

Chris Thomas
Westnet Internet Services

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Einstein Oliveira [mailto:einstein@yawl.com.br]
> Sent: Sunday, 14 June 1998 10:03
> To: radiusnt@iea-software.com
> Subject: Re: USR NetServer x USR NetServer Plus
>
>
> Tim Pitman wrote:
> >
> > The old and new netserver will accept 255.255.255.254 to
> assign an IP
> > address from the pool.
>
> This solved the connection problem but I still have problems
> with accounting.
> Here is a syslog message from NS Plus:
>
> Jun 13 20:03:45 nsplus At 20:02:07, Facility "User Manager",
> Level "CRITICAL"::
> AUTH: No acknowledgement from RADIUS accounting servers,
> reached max number of
> timeouts
>
>
> I'm using the same RadiusNT Server for Authentication and Accounting.
>
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Einstein Oliveira <einstein@yawl.com.br>
> > To: radiusnt@iea-software.com <radiusnt@iea-software.com>
> > Date: Saturday, June 13, 1998 9:07 AM
> > Subject: Re: USR NetServer x USR NetServer Plus
> >
> > >Dale E. Reed Jr. wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Einstein Oliveira wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > Hi,
> > >> >
> > >> > I don't think that this is a problem with
> RadiusNT but maybe
> > this happened with
> > >> > someone in this list.
> > >> >
> > >> > Actually we have a few USR NetServer 16 V.34
> working with
> > Radius 2.2.41 and
> > >> > everything is fine with IP's being automatically
> assigned by the
> > NetServer.
> > >> >
> > >> > Now we're trying to put a USR NetServer Plus
> V.34 to work with
> > these guys but
> > >> > there are some problems that I can't figure out why
> they are happening.
> > >> >
> > >> > When I connect through NetServer Plus the call
> is authenticated
> > only if the
> > >> > Framed-Addres attribute is set in the RadConfigs to
> the account; If not
> > (wich
> > >> > has been working perfectly with old NetServers) the
> connection is
> > dropped and in
> > >> > both cases no account records are generated in the calls table.
> > >>
> > >> Could it be that you don't have an address pool
> configured on the NS
> > Plus?
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea-software.com)
> > >> _________________________________________________________________
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> > >
> > > I forgot to mention that if I set the attribute
> Framed-Address to 0.0.0.0
> > the
> > >NS Plus assign the address from the pool and if I set to
> some fixed address
> > of
> > >my network it also works but in both cases there are no
> account records
> > >generated and worst, when I tried connect in an old NS
> they do not accept
> > >0.0.0.0 in the Framed-Address attribute and thus drop the line.
> > >
> > >
> > > Einstein Oliveira
>