Re: Proxy Errors

Ken Dail <[email protected]> Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:52:29 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.radius.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jul 8, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:

> Hi Ken,
>
> Thanks for the additional information.
>
>> auth {
>> 	max-requests 255;
>> 	#time-to-live 120;
>> 	request-cleanup-delay 1;
>
> The cleanup delay is too small, quite a few of the requests would get
> wiped out from the queue without being processed.  See
> http://www.gnu.org/software/radius/manual/html_node/Request- 
> Queue.html,
> for the information on how to chose its value.

That would appear to have been the problem!

>> Realms:
>> localhost               localhost:1645                  strip
>
> That's definitely wrong!  Never use `localhost' in realms, use LOCAL
> keyword instead.  Please see:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/radius/manual/html_node/realms-file.html
>
> There is a `counter-example' in this section which is marked "Wrong"  
> and
> which is exactly the same as your configuration :)

I'm curious as to why this is wrong, it must have been working for  
some time as my predecessor set this up. So should I use LOCAL:1645 or  
is the port not needed?


Thanks!
Kenny