FreeRadios rlm_sql dumps if databaase server hiccups

Matt mhoppes at gmail.com
Fri Jun 16 15:34:34 CEST 2006


Ok,
Well with no answer to this question let me ask it another way...

In the event of database (via ODBC) failure... is there a way I can
make the radius server go into "failsafe" mode, and just authenticate
anything?

On 6/15/06, Matt <mhoppes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> We use FreeRadius with unixODBC and the rlm_sql to connect to a
> Microsoft SQL database.  All works great... except if the SQL database
> goes down, firewall has the translate table, someone trips over a
> network cable.... anything that causes the connection between the
> radius and SQL to be disturbed, it just says
>
> "There are no DB handles available...." instead of reconnecting... the
> only way I've found to reconnect, is to restart...
>
> Any comments or thoughts on this problem?
>



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