Re: Zombie Clarification

2012-03-24 Thread James J J Hooper
On 24/03/2012 13:13, Alan Buxey wrote: Hi, there was never any more on this thread, so just to add some final info Now, for whatever reason, the Windows box decides to discard some requests. Unfortunately, the error reporting is pretty weak ("discarding invalid request"). Our Windows guys are

Re: Zombie Clarification

2012-03-24 Thread Alan DeKok
Alan Buxey wrote: > Microsoft decided, in their wisdom, to just discard packets that arent right. > this affects IAS and NPS. if your policy says, for example, > > NAS-Port-Type = Wireless-802.11 > > an the packet doesnt have that attribute...or its not Wireless-802.11..then > the packet > is j

Re: Zombie Clarification

2012-03-24 Thread Alan Buxey
Hi, there was never any more on this thread, so just to add some final info > > Now, for whatever reason, the Windows box decides to discard some > > requests. Unfortunately, the error reporting is pretty weak > > ("discarding invalid request"). Our Windows guys are digging into > > this. It seem

Re: Zombie Clarification

2012-03-12 Thread Alan DeKok
Norman Elton wrote: > Well, I understand how the alive/zombie/dead process SHOULD work, but > I'm having trouble lining it up with what we're seeing. We're proxying > to a windows NPS box. Here's the proxy config: Part of the issue is that the timers on the proxy are independent of the timers on

Re: Zombie Clarification

2012-03-11 Thread Norman Elton
>  The "zombie" state is there for a reason.  Ignore zombies at your peril. Well, I understand how the alive/zombie/dead process SHOULD work, but I'm having trouble lining it up with what we're seeing. We're proxying to a windows NPS box. Here's the proxy config: home_server ias-1 { type

Re: Zombie Clarification

2012-03-03 Thread Alan DeKok
Norman Elton wrote: > So here's the question... If the FR server receives no requests, then > nothing gets forwarded to the home server. Does this scenario fall > under "does not respond to a request within the response_window"? Your question answers itself. Did the home server fail to respon

Zombie Clarification

2012-03-01 Thread Norman Elton
Just to make sure I know what's going on... According to the docs, a server that does not respond to a request within the response_window (default: 20 sec) is considered a "zombie", and becomes eligible for the status checker. If no responses are received within the zombie_period (default: 40 sec)