Re: FreeRADIUS and EDUROAM timeout issues

2008-10-09 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > This will happen. There is sufficient buy-in from large telcos that > it's necessary. cool. it wasnt just me toking on the crack pipe too many times 8-) Stefan, you hearing this? and you be thinking I crazy :-) alan - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/

Re: FreeRADIUS and EDUROAM timeout issues

2008-10-09 Thread Alan DeKok
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> But there is no RADIUS "routing protocol"[1]. So that's that. > > s'funny that you should mention that - what with a hierarchical system. > I thought it would be neat if a downstream system could notify the upstream > about what realms it could deal with and - via a

Re: FreeRADIUS and EDUROAM timeout issues

2008-10-09 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > This still means that requests will be sent to that home server,even > if they're for an upstream realm that's dead. If there are multiple > paths to the upstream realm, then those other paths won't be discovered. > > But there is no RADIUS "routing protocol"[1]. So that's that. s'fu

Re: FreeRADIUS and EDUROAM timeout issues

2008-10-09 Thread Alan DeKok
Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote: > That'd work. So when a server is marked as a Zombie Access-Requests > still sent to it until the Zombie period has expired? Yes. I also noticed that the current code doesn't send Status-Server packets until "check_interval" time AFTER it's marked "dead". So we have

Re: FreeRADIUS and EDUROAM timeout issues

2008-10-09 Thread Arran Cudbard-Bell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan DeKok wrote: > Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote: >> Really in an system of chained proxy servers like EDUROAM you only want >> to be testing first hop connectivity. > > Exactly. > >> Alan, do you think it might be a good idea to provide an option to >

Re: FreeRADIUS and EDUROAM timeout issues

2008-10-09 Thread Alan DeKok
Peter Eriksson wrote: > I wonder how low I can set things to lessen this issue. Perhaps set > zombie_period and check_interval to one second... That's not a good idea. It means that the server will be marked dead MORE quickly. >>> Best would probably be if FreeRadius kept a >>> separate timeou

Re: FreeRADIUS and EDUROAM timeout issues

2008-10-09 Thread Alan DeKok
Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote: > Really in an system of chained proxy servers like EDUROAM you only want > to be testing first hop connectivity. Exactly. > Alan, do you think it might be a good idea to provide an option to > disregard failures from standard authentication requests, and instead > use

Re: FreeRADIUS and EDUROAM timeout issues

2008-10-09 Thread Arran Cudbard-Bell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Eriksson wrote: > > Alan DeKok wrote: >> Peter Eriksson wrote: >>> The default setting seems to be less than optimal since if a remote site >>> have problems with their home RADIUS servers then we risk having our >>> local servers mark the upstr

Re: FreeRADIUS and EDUROAM timeout issues

2008-10-09 Thread Peter Eriksson
Alan DeKok wrote: > Peter Eriksson wrote: >> The default setting seems to be less than optimal since if a remote site >> have problems with their home RADIUS servers then we risk having our >> local servers mark the upstream servers as "dead" since it's not >> receiving answers for a specific 're

Re: FreeRADIUS and EDUROAM timeout issues

2008-10-08 Thread Alan DeKok
Peter Eriksson wrote: > The default setting seems to be less than optimal since if a remote site > have problems with their home RADIUS servers then we risk having our > local servers mark the upstream servers as "dead" since it's not > receiving answers for a specific 'realm'... That's been a b

FreeRADIUS and EDUROAM timeout issues

2008-10-08 Thread Peter Eriksson
How have other EDUROAM sites configured their EDUROAM servers with regard to timeout issues? The default setting seems to be less than optimal since if a remote site have problems with their home RADIUS servers then we risk having our local servers mark the upstream servers as "dead" since it's no