1.1.4 stops responding to requests

Phil Allred phil.allred at brooklaw.edu
Tue Feb 13 20:36:40 CET 2007


Interesting.  I don't think it is needed here.  I'll check with our 
wireless vendor, then give it a shot. 

Thanks very much!

Phil

Guilherme Franco wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> Same with me, but acct is necessary.
>  
> The solution was radsqlrelay.
>  
> Regards,
>  
> Guilherme
>  
> On 2/13/07, *Stefan Winter* <stefan.winter at restena.lu 
> <mailto:stefan.winter at restena.lu>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     > 1.1.4 will run for a few hours and then either stop responding to
>     > requests or die.   There is no seg fault warning in any log
>     file.  If I
>     > restart radius, it then begins answering again.  Since it is a
>     > production environment in which 300-500 users are connected at
>     any given
>     > time, we were unable to simply turn on debugging and look for
>     problems.
>     > Once we realized the problem we had to quickly revert to 1.0.5
>     for now
>     > and make our relatively few Vista users for a little longer.
>
>     Interesting... I've been seeing exactly this happening on our own
>     system. In
>     our case, I could track it down to the fact that it stopped responding
>     shortly after accounting packets came in. Turning off accounting
>     (already on
>     NAS level) deterministically solved the problem for me, so I
>     suspect the
>     problem to be somewhere near there.
>     I never followed this trace, because accounting is optional at our
>     site (free
>     wireless) and it was our prod environment, I didn't want to mess
>     around
>     without a good reason. So accounting is just off at the moment.
>
>     > I am going to try running it in debug mode over a weekend in a
>     > particular subset of the school's wireless network where not
>     many users
>     > would be affected by a crash and see if I can collect any more
>     > information.  I will do it on a system that never had any earlier
>     > version of freeradius installed on it, just to be safe.  In the
>     > meantime, any advice would be appreciated.
>
>     Is it an option to not do accounting? Or maybe queue the acct in
>     files rather
>     than a proper backend (for me, the issue happened in combination
>     with mysql).
>     I never tried if the hangs occur also when logging to a file.
>
>     Greetings,
>
>     Stefan Winter
>
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