Dropped packet and Radius stats

[Dinh Pham Cong]

Hi all,

My Radius server has received a lot of invalid packets. Those packets are
dropped but the stats shows that no packet is dropped. Is it a bug?


Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from
10.0.41.138 with invalid signature!  (Shared secret is incorrect.) Dropping
packet without response.
Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from
10.0.41.138 with invalid signature!  (Shared secret is incorrect.) Dropping
packet without response.
Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from
10.0.41.138 with invalid signature!  (Shared secret is incorrect.) Dropping
packet without response.
Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from
10.0.41.138 with invalid signature!  (Shared secret is incorrect.) Dropping
packet without response.
Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from
10.0.41.138 with invalid signature!  (Shared secret is incorrect.) Dropping
packet without response.
Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from
10.0.41.137 with invalid signature!  (Shared secret is incorrect.) Dropping
packet without response.
Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from
10.0.41.137 with invalid signature!  (Shared secret is incorrect.) Dropping
packet without response.
Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from
10.0.41.137 with invalid signature!  (Shared secret is incorrect.) Dropping
packet without response.
Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from
10.0.41.138 with invalid signature!  (Shared secret is incorrect.) Dropping
packet without response.
Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from
10.0.41.138 with invalid signature!  (Shared secret is incorrect.) Dropping
packet without response.
Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from
10.0.41.137 with invalid signature!  (Shared secret is incorrect.) Dropping
packet without response.
Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from
10.0.41.137 with invalid signature!  (Shared secret is incorrect.) Dropping
packet without response.
Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: [sql] stop packet with zero session
length. [ip '10.160.15.191', nas '10.0.41.137']
Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from
10.0.41.138 with invalid signature!  (Shared secret is incorrect.) Dropping
packet without response.
Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from
10.0.41.138 with invalid signature!  (Shared secret is incorrect.) Dropping
packet without response.
Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from
10.0.41.138 with invalid signature!  (Shared secret is incorrect.) Dropping
packet without response.
Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from
10.0.41.137 with invalid signature!  (Shared secret is incorrect.) Dropping
packet without response.
Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from
10.0.41.137 with invalid signature!  (Shared secret is incorrect.) Dropping
packet without response.
Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from
10.0.41.138 with invalid signature!  (Shared secret is incorrect.) Dropping
packet without response.
Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from
10.0.41.138 with invalid signature!  (Shared secret is incorrect.) Dropping
packet without response.
Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from
10.0.41.138 with invalid signature!  (Shared secret is incorrect.) Dropping
packet without response.
Fri Dec 18 17:54:30 2009 : Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from
10.0.41.138 with invalid signature!  (Shared secret is incorrect.) Dropping
packet without response.

[root at radiusd2 mysql]# ./radmin -e "stats client acct"
        requests        939800
        responses       690622
        dup             0
        invalid         0
        malformed       0
        bad_signature   0
        dropped         0
        unknown_types   0
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