randomly crashing

[Alan DeKok]

Matt Garretson wrote:
> I was about to give up, when an openssl package update was issued 
> by Fedora (0.9.8b-14.fc7, around August 14).  The changelog wasn't 
> very descriptive, but ever since updating the openssl RPMs,
> freeradius hasn't segfaulted at all.

  <sigh>  Depending on other libraries is so helpful...

> PS: I do still see the "Either EAP-request timed out OR EAP-response
> to an unknown EAP-request" rlm_eap error maybe 5-10 times a day, 
> but the Freeradius daemon no longer crashes from them.  And the client 
> auth succeeds on the retry ~30 seconds later.  Never saw this 
> behavior with Freeradius 1.1.2, but I wouldn't be surprised if it
> was happening back then, and that 1.1.7 simply has more verbose
> logging of such occurrences no\\w.

  Hmm... if you see that a lot, then something is going wrong.  I'm not
sure what, but it shouldn't be happening that often.

  Alan DeKok.