[RADIATOR] connection timout

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Claudio -

 From the History file for Radiator 4.0:


	• Fixed possible socket exhaustion in Server TACACSPLUS under certain  
unusual circumstances.


regards

Hugh



On 12 Aug 2009, at 23:08, Claudio Lapidus wrote:

> Hello Hugh,
>
> Could you please point me to the exact location of this fix? We´ve  
> been recently experiencing some problems with max open files (albeit  
> related to Oracle client retries) and we´d like to see if there is  
> any relation with this one.
>
> thank you,
> cl.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Hugh Irvine <hugh at open.com.au> wrote:
>
> Hello Markus -
>
> What version of Radiator are you running? The most recent is Radiator
> 4.4 (plus patches).
>
> There was a fix for this recently.
>
> regards
>
> Hugh
>
>
> On 12 Aug 2009, at 05:34, Markus Moeller wrote:
>
> > Is there a timeout value I can set to drop idle connection attempts
> > for TACACS+ and Radius ?  We see sometimes a device going crazy and
> > sending a lot of authentication requests and don't finish them and
> > thereby blocking the server (e.g a form of DOS) since on Solaris the
> > number of open files/sockets is often only 256. Increasing it to
> > 1024 helps a bit but not completely.
> >
> > Thank you
> > Markus
> >
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>
> NB:
>
> Have you read the reference manual ("doc/ref.html")?
> Have you searched the mailing list archive (www.open.com.au/archives/radiator)?
> Have you had a quick look on Google (www.google.com)?
> Have you included a copy of your configuration file (no secrets),
> together with a trace 4 debug showing what is happening?
> Have you checked the RadiusExpert wiki:
> http://www.open.com.au/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>
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NB:

Have you read the reference manual ("doc/ref.html")?
Have you searched the mailing list archive (www.open.com.au/archives/radiator)?
Have you had a quick look on Google (www.google.com)?
Have you included a copy of your configuration file (no secrets),
together with a trace 4 debug showing what is happening?
Have you checked the RadiusExpert wiki:
http://www.open.com.au/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

-- 
Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server
anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows, MacOS X.
Includes support for reliable RADIUS transport (RadSec),
and DIAMETER translation agent.
-
Nets: internetwork inventory and management - graphical, extensible,
flexible with hardware, software, platform and database independence.
-
CATool: Private Certificate Authority for Unix and Unix-like systems.