Thanks for your reply Alan, I believe I found the problem and I will describe it here as it might help others Looks like for some reason the only access-request that was issued, was being resent endlessly: The block below would be repeated 192 times (I don't know why) each time adding one more Proxy-State line <log> modcall[authorize]: module "sql" returns ok for request {/*1 to 192* ) modcall: leaving group authorize (returns updated) for request (/*1 to 192*/) Sending Access-Request of id (/*1 to 192*/ to xx.xx.xx.xx8 port 1812 User-Name = "18xxxxxxxx" User-Password = "xeexxxxxx" NAS-IP-Address = 255.255.255.255 NAS-Port = 1812 Proxy-State = 0x313230 Proxy-State = 0x30 Proxy-State = 0x31 Proxy-State = 0x32 Proxy-State = 0x33 </log> Finally the authentication realm would be marked as DEAD for each request <log> marking authentication server 66.46.144.238:1812 for realm xxx.xx dead Server rejecting request 2. marking authentication server 66.46.144.238:1812 for realm xxx.xx dead Server rejecting request 3. marking authentication server 66.46.144.238:1812 for realm xxx.xx dead Server rejecting request 4. marking authentication server 66.46.144.238:1812 for realm xxx.xx dead Server rejecting request 5. marking authentication server 66.46.144.238:1812 for realm xxx.xx dead Server rejecting request 6. marking authentication server 66.46.144.238:1812 for realm xxx.xx dead Server rejecting request 7. marking authentication server 66.46.144.238:1812 for realm xxx.xx dead {go on until all requests would be dead} </log> As this realm was marked dead, the next request (the second one) would go through another (default?) realm and this time, it would work normally. So, I took the proxy.conf file and commented out the offending realm information, forcing the "first request" to go to the next realm (default?) and it worked!!! I still need to see what I might be affecting as this is probably a Hack I hope this makes sense to someone....actually I got the idea from checking an old mailing list archived message about missing proxies Thanks to everyone, Mig