Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
Really in an system of chained proxy servers like EDUROAM you only want to be testing first hop connectivity.
Exactly.
Alan, do you think it might be a good idea to provide an option to disregard failures from standard authentication requests, and instead use periodic status_checks to mark servers alive or dead?
How about having it send Status-Server packets (or whatever you configure) at the START of the zombie period. i.e. as soon as it determines that the server hasn't responded to a request, start pinging it with Status-Server packets. If it responds to the Status-Server, it will be marked "live", even if it doesn't respond to Access-Request packets. That will help, but the only solution to working with broken servers is to implement the N x M realm/server management. Alan DeKok.