misbehaving nas's send accounting to both primary and secondary servers

Joe Maimon jmaimon at ttec.com
Thu Oct 1 15:12:29 CEST 2009



Ivan Kalik wrote:
>> What is the best way to deal with misbehaving nas's that send accounting
>> to both the primary and secondary server, even while receiving replies
>> to both queries.
> 
> First make sure that this is so. Debug accounting on the NAS. NAS should
> send several packets to first radius server before it fails over to second
> one. If debug does show NAS is getting replies from the first server see
> why are they ignored. It could be that you have configured radius server
> on the NAS with one IP address and server is replying from another (if it
> is multihomed). Such replies would be ignored.
> 
> Ivan Kalik
> Kalik Informatika ISP
> 

Packet captures show everything fine. The nas is no longer supported by 
any manufacturer I can find. The documentation refers to a setting that 
can be used to tell the nas to use both accounting server groups or one, 
but that setting doesnt exist on this nas, perhaps software revision or 
something.







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