caching mechanisms and clean disconnect

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Fri Nov 17 16:44:46 CET 2006


"Josh Shamir" <josh.shamir at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I login with the same user (on the same machine), after a
> disconnection, if I want reconnect immediatly freeRADIUS receive the first
> request and it accept the user (but the client isn't really connected to
> wifi network),

  Why not?

>  after this, FreeRADIUS do nothing for some second (abount two
> minutes) and after this idle time, the authentication restart and the client
> is connected.

  Well, yes.  If the client isn't asking to be connected, FreeRADIUS
does nothing.

> When I login with another use (on the same machine), after a disconnection,
> if I want reconnect immedialty FreeRADIUS does not receive nothing, At this
> point, I think that it's a client problem, but my question is: why there is
> this idle time?

  You answered your own question: It's a client problem.  No amount of
poking FreeRADIUS will make the client reconnect immediately.

  Alan DeKok.
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