Error: Received conflicting packet

2009-10-11 Thread rihad
Hi, all, Sometimes when there are too many requests from a NAS, like right after rebooting it and thus breaking current sessions, etc., freeradius 2.1.3 under FreeBSD begins loggin many many lines like this after the NAS re-sends unanswered packets: Error: Received conflicting packet from

RE: 1.Troubleshooting MySQL Connections , 2. troubleshooting possible memory leak

2009-10-11 Thread Stefan A.
Hi all, I have been asking this in October 2008, while using 2.0.4 FR is eating Memory and I do not know how to troubleshoot this. It takes about 1 MB/ Minute which was about 3.5 GB over some Days, before we rcognized this. Alan: There were issues with older versions of the

Re: Error: Received conflicting packet

2009-10-11 Thread Alan DeKok
rihad wrote: Sometimes when there are too many requests from a NAS, like right after rebooting it and thus breaking current sessions, etc., freeradius 2.1.3 under FreeBSD begins loggin many many lines like this after the NAS re-sends unanswered packets: Error: Received conflicting packet

Re: Error: Received conflicting packet

2009-10-11 Thread rihad
Alan DeKok wrote: but aborting the current packet instead of the new duplicate one can hardly be justified. Nonsense. The duplicate one is an indication that the *NAS* has given up on the first packet. Spending more time processing the current packet is useless, because the NAS will ignore

Re: Error: Received conflicting packet

2009-10-11 Thread Alan DeKok
rihad wrote: Absurd. The Dell PowerEdge 2950 w/ 2 quad-cores cannot itself without human intervention survive the NAS attack exactly due to having to give up on hundreds of requests per second Your dual quad-core box can't handle hundreds of packets a second? Wow... your Perl script is

Re: Error: Received conflicting packet

2009-10-11 Thread Ivan Kalik
Alan DeKok wrote: but aborting the current packet instead of the new duplicate one can hardly be justified. Nonsense. The duplicate one is an indication that the *NAS* has given up on the first packet. Spending more time processing the current packet is useless, because the NAS will

Re: Error: Received conflicting packet

2009-10-11 Thread rihad
Ivan Kalik wrote: That is, not many (if any) of our Receved ... lines are due to what could be considered a NAS timeout, and they should be treated like Discarding ..., that is, the new request should be dropped. No, NAS qouldn't wait on your script to finish so it gave up and has tried again