| On Feb 20, 2004, at 6:41 AM, Alan DeKok wrote:
| 
| > "Sudhagar Chinnaswamy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| >> The failover doesn't work if the "synchronous" parameter is set to
| >> "yes". Can someone explain this behaviour ?
| >
| >   It's probably a bug in the server.  I don't think that 
| configuration
| > has been well tested.
| >
| Isn't this actually correct? According to the DOCS, if Synchronous is 
| set to Yes, then all of the other parameters should be set to 0. How 
| will the server 'know' what the retry_delay, retry_count, and 
| dead_time 
| are?

Radius client (NAS or any external Radius server) may not have the
information that more than one Radius server serves this particular
realm. I believe, mostly the Radius server at top of the hierarchy will
have this fail-over information. Also configuring FailOver at large
volume of NASes is difficult compared to configuration at Radius Server,
which is fewer in number compared to NAS. It might be a good idea to
support fail-over in this configuration too.

| Chris
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