(RADIATOR) radpwtst -status

[Mike McCauley]

Hi Fred,

Thanks for your feedback.

We will look at whether that can be done.

Cheers.

On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 16:51, Fred Albrecht wrote:
> Hi Mike and Hugh
>
> But is this stat then not misleading?  This is not a dropped request,it was
> accepted and forwarded???  Perhaps there needs to be another stat that
> reflects this?
>
> Thanks for the clarification though.
>
> :)
>
> fred
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike McCauley [mailto:mikem at open.com.au]
> Sent: 04 June 2002 01:26 AM
> To: hugh at open.com.au; Fred Albrecht
> Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) radpwtst -status
>
>
> Hello Fred,
>
> On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 06:50, Hugh Irvine wrote:
> > Hello Fred -
> >
> > I have copied this mail to Mike for his comments, but I would like to see
> > a copy of your configuration file and a trace 4 debug.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Hugh
> >
> > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 22:04, Fred Albrecht wrote:
> > > Hi Hugh
> > >
> > > I have attempted to grok the source, but it remains illusive ;)
> > >
> > > I fiddled with the code a bit in order to see what would generate my
> > > dropped accesses (btw I looked at a snoop and saw no reason for the
> > > rejects, I logged and matched packets by hand! ugh, used radstock
> > > also). What I did find was that when I proxy a request to RADIUS it
> > > increments the droppedAccessRequests counter, as in
> > >
> > > # IGNORE means no reply
> > >             $p->statsIncrement('droppedRequests',
> > > 'droppedAccessRequests');
> > >
> > > Is this analysis correct?  Well the question is this, will forwarding
> > > to a proxy increment the droppedAccessRequests value?
>
> Yes, provided it is not a Synchronous proxy. When (if) a reply is received
> the appropriate counter will also be incremented. If no reply is received,
> the proxiedNoReply counter wil be incremented.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Cheers.
>
> > > :\
> > >
> > > fred
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Hugh Irvine [mailto:hugh at open.com.au]
> > > Sent: 01 June 2002 12:36 AM
> > > To: Fred Albrecht; radiator at open.com.au
> > > Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) radpwtst -status
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello Fred -
> > >
> > > This is from "Radius/ServerConfig.pm" - it is the list of statistics
> > > that are used when replying to a "Status-Server" request in
> > > "Radius/Client.pm":
> > >
> > > # These are the official names and descriptions of various statistics
> > > # we keep in each object listed in $p->StatsTrail
> > > %Radius::ServerConfig::statistic_names =
> > >     (
> > >      requests => 'Total requests',
> > >      droppedRequests => 'Total dropped requests',
> > >      duplicateRequests => 'Total duplicate requests',
> > >      proxiedRequests => 'Total proxied requests',
> > >      proxiedNoReply => 'Total proxied requests with no reply',
> > >      badAuthRequests => 'Total Bad authenticators in requests',
> > >      responseTime => 'Average response time',
> > >
> > >      accessRequests => 'Access requests',
> > >      dupAccessRequests => 'Duplicate access requests',
> > >      accessAccepts => 'Access accepts',
> > >      accessRejects => 'Access rejects',
> > >      accessChallenges => 'Access challenges',
> > >      malformedAccessRequests => 'Malformed acccess requests',
> > >      badAuthAccessRequests => 'Bad authenticators in authentication
> > > requests', droppedAccessRequests => 'Dropped access requests',
> > >
> > >      accountingRequests => 'Accounting requests',
> > >      dupAccountingRequests => 'Duplicate accounting requests',
> > >      accountingResponses => 'Accounting responses',
> > >      malformedAccountingRequests => 'Malformed accounting requests',
> > >      badAuthAccountingRequests => 'Bad authenticators in accounting
> > > requests', droppedAccountingRequests => 'Dropped accounting requests',
> > >      );
> > >
> > >
> > > "Dropped access requests" means access requests that have been received
> > > by the server but not processed, such as requests from unkown clients.
> > >
> > > May the source be with you......
> > >
> > > :-)
> > >
> > > cheers
> > >
> > > Hugh
> > >
> > > On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 00:12, Fred Albrecht wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > When doing a radpwtst with -status, what does the line with "Dropped
> > > > access requests" mean?  Is this the number of access-request rejects?
> > > >
> > > > :)
> > > >
> > > > fred
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