Thanks for the input,  I will look at the trace 4 messages for errors and 
states.  I am not sure that this is the same type of situation that Neil is 
describing from Eduroam as this is an internal proxy setup for a dept who looks 
after their own AD etc...

MH


On 2013-05-17, at 12:50 PM, Christopher Bongaarts wrote:

> IIRC, this is the symptom we saw when our wireless controllers weren't 
> returning all of the State attributes (see the thread from Neil at Iowa).  
> For diagnosis, bump your Trace level up to 4 for a while, and observe the 
> State attributes being sent and returned.
> 
> On 5/17/2013 7:12 AM, Michael Hulko wrote:
>> One note after implementing EAPBALANCE.  I am getting this in the logs with 
>> a specific user at the moment.
>> 
>> May 17 07:52:09 riptide-2.vm.its.uwo.pri /usr/bin/radiusd[23274]: 
>> ProxyAlgorithm HASHBALANCE declines to break up an EAP stream after failover 
>> from 129.100.160.133:1645:1646 to 129.100.160.144:1645:1646
>> May 17 07:52:09 riptide-2.vm.its.uwo.pri /usr/bin/radiusd[23274]: 
>> ProxyAlgorithm HASHBALANCE declines to break up an EAP stream after failover 
>> from 129.100.160.133:1645:1646 to 129.100.160.144:1645:1646
>> May 17 07:52:14 riptide-2.vm.its.uwo.pri /usr/bin/radiusd[23274]: 
>> ProxyAlgorithm HASHBALANCE declines to break up an EAP stream after failover 
>> from 129.100.160.133:1645:1646 to 129.100.160.144:1645:1646
>> 
>> May 17 08:07:39 riptide-2.vm.its.uwo.pri /usr/bin/radiusd[23274]: AuthRADIUS 
>> IVEY: Could not find a working host to forward asnow...@ivey.ca (79) after 
>> 20 seconds. Ignoring
>> May 17 08:07:39 riptide-2.vm.its.uwo.pri /usr/bin/radiusd[23274]: AuthRADIUS 
>> IVEY: Could not find a working host to forward asnow...@ivey.ca (79) after 
>> 20 seconds. Ignoring
>> May 17 08:07:39 riptide-2.vm.its.uwo.pri /usr/bin/radiusd[23274]: AuthRADIUS 
>> IVEY: No reply after 20 seconds and 3 retransmissions to 
>> 129.100.160.133:1645 for asnow...@ivey.ca (64)
>> May 17 08:07:39 riptide-2.vm.its.uwo.pri /usr/bin/radiusd[23274]: AuthRADIUS 
>> IVEY: No reply after 20 seconds and 3 retransmissions to 
>> 129.100.160.133:1645 for asnow...@ivey.ca (64)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Here is the config snippet I have included.
>> 
>> <AuthBy EAPBALANCE>
>>  Log errorLogger
>>  Log western_syslog
>>  Identifier IVEY
>>  Retries 3
>>  RetryTimeout 5
>>  FailureBackoffTime 20 
>>  AuthPort 1645
>>    
>>             AcctPort 1646
>>     
>>             Secret xxxxxxxxx
>>  LocalAddress xxxxxx
>>  
>>   <Host 129.100.160.144> 
>>   </Host>
>>  
>>  <Host 129.100.160.97>
>>  </Host>
>>  
>>  <Host 129.100.160.133>
>>  </Host>
>>    
>> </AuthBy>
>> 
>> My interpretation of these messages is that the server the EAPBALANCE is 
>> trying to send the authentication packets to does not respond in the 
>> appropriate amount of time, the EAPBALANCE Hash does not want to break the 
>> authentication stream, but never times out long enough to move to another 
>> server?
>> Any input would be helpful.  My thought is to lower the values for Retries 
>> etc.
>> 
>> 
>> MH
>> 
>> 
>> On 2013-05-10, at 11:41 AM, Michael Hulko wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks for the suggestion.. this seems to alleviate the timeouts that I had 
>>> noticed previously. (Log file was sent separately).  
>>> 
>>> MH
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2013-05-10, at 5:26 AM, Heikki Vatiainen wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 05/09/2013 11:09 PM, Michael Hulko wrote:
>>>>> We have been requested to try and loadbalance requests to a Campus
>>>>> department with their own Radius (IAS) server for their wireless users.
>>>> 
>>>> Hello Michael,
>>>> 
>>>> you mentioned campus and wireless LAN which makes me think there is EAP,
>>>> such as PEAP or TTLS, involved.
>>>> 
>>>> If so, you would need to use <AuthBy EAPBALANCE> to make sure the EAP
>>>> authentication sessions are always handled by the same IAS server.
>>>> Otherwise you will see failures and timeouts when the IAS servers
>>>> receive requests they are not expecting.
>>>> 
>>>> The Trace 4 log was not included, but I'd first check how it works with
>>>> EAPBALANCE.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Heikki
>>>> 
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>> 
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