> Being 100% correct protocol-wise means nothing, if the software can't > fit well into an environment.
Exactly. The only problem being your inability to comprehend that freeradius is not faulty but it is your perl script that can't cope. If you are unwilling to alter it in order to speed things up you can separate authentication and accounting using buffered-sql virtual server. On high loads that arrangement will favour authentication while accounting will lag behind and catch up when load goes down. You shouldn't have any conflicting packets then because router will just be re-sending accounting packets. Ivan Kalik Kalik Informatika ISP - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html