retry mechanism for radius client 1.1.6
Frank Cusack
fcusack at fcusack.com
Thu May 20 10:54:28 CEST 2010
> Looking at the retry handling in rc_send_server() in sendserver.c, it
> appears that "retries" actually means "tries".
...
Indeed.
> I think the fix is simply to change the line to:
>
> if (retries++ >= retry_max)
Unfortunately many many systems are deployed with the previous semantics,
so I think it'd be better to simply document the behavior. Alternatively,
a new keyword to implement the new semantics, with a log warning about
the old keyword being deprecated.
-frank
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