Malformed RADIUS packet from host

rsg ranil.santhish at gmail.com
Thu May 29 12:49:24 CEST 2008


I agree it's not a RADIUS server. It's a WAP gateway running on Kannel
with  minimal support for RADIUS as described by
http://www.kannel.org/download/1.4.1/userguide-1.4.1/userguide.html#AEN1038

I understand your point. However, there's no better alternative for the moment.

Thanks,
srg.


On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
> rsg wrote:
>> The objective in my case is simply to send selected set of AVPs like
>> Acct-Session-Id and Framed-IP-Address to the home server.
>
>  That's nice.  It doesn't solve the problem that the home server is
> broken.  Fix it.  If you can't fix it, replace it with a RADIUS server
> that works.
>
>> I need to achieve two things.
>>
>> 1) Need to satisfy successful delivery of Accounting-Request to the home server.
>>
>> 2) This Accounting transaction has to be transparent to the
>> Client(NAS). (With the general Proxy setup this is quite difficult
>> achieve and I see Duplicate requests originated from NAS for
>> incomplete transactions.
>
>  Both of these are possible with a home server that works.  Your home
> server does not work, so these requirements are impossible to achieve.
>
>  No amount of playing with FreeRADIUS or the NAS will fix the home server.
>
>> Here when the proxy receives a malformed packet from the home
>> server..Accounting transaction is unfinished thus the NAS retries with
>> duplicate requests. That's why I want to make the Proxying of
>> Accounting transparent to the NAS.
>
>  It *is* transparent to the NAS... when the home server works.  Your
> home server does not work.
>
>> Would it be possible to achieve these with the proxy configuration?
>> Theoretically it may not sound sensible, however I would like to have
>> your expert opinion on this.
>
>  Your home server is broken.  I really can't emphasize this enough.
> Throw it away.  It's garbage.  Your home server is *not* a RADIUS server.
>
>  Alan DeKok.
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