[RADIATOR] Unexpected behavior with UseStatusServerForFailureDetect in AuthBy LOADBALANCE

[Heikki Vatiainen]

On 05/10/2013 05:55 PM, Todor Genov wrote:

> Excerpts from Heikki Vatiainen's message of Fri May 10 15:55:22 +0200 2013:
>> Since you have not specified FailureBackoffTime it defaults to 0 and
>> might be the cause of the problem you see.
> 
> Even with a "FailureBackoffTime 300" the problem is reproducible. For now I'll revert to using the default failure detection mechanism.
>  
> Here's logs of a packet stuck in re-transmit with UseStatusServerForFailureDetect:

Thanks for taking a look at this and providing more input. I will take a
look at the Status-Server handling.

Heikki


> *** Sending to 127.0.0.1 port 1824 ....
> Code:       Accounting-Request
> Identifier: 169
> Authentic:  <215><135><238><164><229><163>`r<8><29><12>E6c8<186>
> Attributes:
> 	User-Name = "a"
> 	Service-Type = Framed-User
> 	NAS-IP-Address = 203.63.154.1
> 	NAS-Identifier = "203.63.154.1"
> 	NAS-Port = 1234
> 	NAS-Port-Type = Async
> 	Acct-Session-Id = "00001234"
> 	Acct-Status-Type = Start
> 	Called-Station-Id = "123456789"
> 	Calling-Station-Id = "987654321"
> 	Acct-Delay-Time = 0
> 	Timestamp = 1368196514
> 	Proxy-State = OSC-Extended-Id=169
> 
> Fri May 10 16:43:39 2013: INFO: AuthRADIUS : No reply after 505 seconds and 3 retransmissions to 127.0.0.1:1824 for a (135)
> 
> and without UseStatusServerForFailureDetect:
> 
> Fri May 10 16:52:12 2013: WARNING: ProxyAlgorithm LOADBALANCE Could not find a working host to proxy to
> Fri May 10 16:52:12 2013: INFO: AuthRADIUS : Could not find a working host to forward a (4) after 4 seconds. Ignoring
> Fri May 10 16:52:12 2013: INFO: AuthRADIUS : No reply after 4 seconds and 3 retransmissions to 127.0.0.1:1824 for a (129). Now have 1 consecutive failures over 0 seconds. Backing off for 300 seconds
> 
> --
> todor
> 


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