(RADIATOR) Radiator freezing intermitantly

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Matt, Hello Brian -

It is usually very easy to see this in a trace 4 debug, as you will 
have the timestamps on all the DEBUG messages.

regards

Hugh


On Friday, Jun 27, 2003, at 20:10 Australia/Melbourne, Matt Taylor 
wrote:

>
>>  We are running into the same problem on a machine where we are using 
>> the
>>  primary ip address of the system for radiator.  A user will dial in 
>> and our
>>  equipment will run the radius request, at which I can see radius
>>  authenticating the user in authlog, but the dialup equip isn't 
>> getting it
>>  cause it tries 5 times to auth (the set value) and tells users their
>>  username and password is invalid.  We are using 3com (now utstarcom)
>>  hiperarc running TCS 4.2  and the newest version of radiator.  
>> Attached is
>>  my conf file.  I have radius stable on a system now, but when I 
>> tried to
>>  move it to this new system it worked.  The problem is intermitent.
>
> I've seen this kind of problem when any log files you have get too 
> large. Radiator struggles to respond before the NAS times out and 
> sends another request, as a result of the load induced from appending 
> to a large log file each time an authentication takes place.
>
> Regards
>
> Matthew Taylor
> Senior Network Engineer - Cisco CCNA, Citrix CCA, Watchguard WCSP, 
> WCSPV
> Techcel Computer Services Pty Ltd
> Phone (02) 4960 1139  Fax (02) 4960 2639
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NB: have you included a copy of your configuration file (no secrets),
together with a trace 4 debug showing what is happening?

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