(RADIATOR) Secondary Server

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Tom -

On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 07:56, tom at g4.net wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to a radius proxy for radius failover between servers.
>
> Here's the stub of the config.
> <AuthBy GROUP>
>         Identifier NetwayAuthDNIS
>         RewriteUsername s/^NETWAY\/(.*)$/$1/
>         <AuthBy RADIUS>
>                 Host x.x.0.254
>                 Host x.x.0.253
>                 Secret secret
>                 AuthPort 1645
>                 AcctPort 1646
>                 Retries 2
>                 RetryTimeout 30
>                 FailureBackoffTime 60
>         </AuthBy>
> </AuthBy>
>
> The two radius servers behind my radiator box are cistron radius. They are
> configured identically. My box is Radiator 2.18.4
>
> Here is the problem:
>
> When I shut down 0.254, requests begin to flow into 0.253, however, they
> allow-auth packets somehow never make it back to the termservers and the
> call ends up getting dropped for lack of an auth response. Does anyone
> know what I might be doing wrong?
>

You should have a look at a trace 4 debug from Radiator to see what is 
happening. I would suspect incorrect shared secrets or possibly incorrect 
firewall rules/filters.

If you still have a problem, please send me a copy of the configuration file 
(no secrets) together with the trace 4 debug.

regards

Hugh


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