(RADIATOR) Default Simultaneous Use of 1 (session retains)

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Darwin -

You should either use one single session database, or you should proxy 
the accounting requests to both radius servers so the session databases 
are always kept in sync.

regards

Hugh


On 21 Mar 2005, at 13:09, Darwin wrote:

> Hi,
>  
>     We have 2 existing radius servers running, radius1 and radius2 
> both with same configuration but with different database/machines. 
> radius1 is our primary radius server and radius2 is the secondary. AS 
> will do the failover that if radius1 is not running it will retransmit 
> to radius2 to do the job. We've noticed that sometimes, if the user 
> was disconnected and tried to relogin again, they can't login, we 
> checked the logs we received the error "Default Simultaneous use of 
> 1". We checked radius logs, we've noticed that both radius server is 
> adding user sessions, so in case the user disconnects, radius1 deletes 
> the session while radius2 takes time for the session to be 
> deleted,around a minute, that's why we encountered a Default 
> Simultaneous use of 1 error.
> Do you think its normal, or is the current setup right? and how can we 
> solve this problem?
>  
> Thanks in advance.
>  
> Regards,
> Darwin
>

NB: I am travelling this week, so there may be delays in our 
correspondence.

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