Freeradius and What's Up Gold Continued

[Alan DeKok]

"Linda Pagillo" <linda at n2thenet.com> wrote:
> Then i changed my timeout to 60 seconds. I have not gotten a message
> from WUG telling me that Freeradius is down since i did that and
> that was several days ago.. Does that mean that my first suspision
> was correct about Freeradius taking up to 60 seconds to respond to a
> sent request at times?

  It depends on the client.  RADIUS packets can be lost in the
network, and there's nothing that FreeRADIUS can do about it.

  If WUG only waits 5 seconds, then it probably won't retransmit
packets, and FreeRADIUS won't be given an opportunity to re-transmit
replies.

> I'm coming to the conclusion that i paid way too much for a crappy
> monitoring system.

  Uh... no comment.  Much as open source doesn't have official
support, it often *works* when commercial software doesn't.

  Alan DeKok.