(RADIATOR) Patch: AuthBy RoundRobin -- try only once all alive servers in the RR list

[Mike McCauley]

Hello,

Thanks for your patch.
It has been added to the Radiator mainline code, and is now available in the 
latest patch set. Credit is given to you for the patch.

Thanks again!
Cheers.



On Tuesday 15 November 2005 21:36, Rok Papez wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Circumstance description:
> - We are proxying all unknown realm requests to root Radius servers
> - We have disabled the dead timers for the root Radius servers
> (we don't want to mark root servers as dead, never; even if they _are_ dead
> ;->) - We have configured the load-balancing (round robin) of requests to
> the root Radius servers - some Radius servers don't send Access-Reject for
> unknown domain
>
> Problem description:
> - We use Radiator/Auth-By ROUNDROBIN and it's not possible to specify how
> long or how many times a request should be retried. It doesn't note
> request<->server attempts and keeps retrying over and over again.
>
> Solution description:
> - We developed a patch to attempt to deliver only a limited amount of
> times. It will remember which server it tried to send to at first and then
> on retry it will walk the whole RR list and try each available server in a
> row. When it reaches the first server, it will abort the request.
>
> Please find the patch for radiator-3.13 attached. I'd love to hear any
> feedback...

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