Proxy Timeout Behavior

[Alan DeKok]

David Mitchell wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to have FreeRadius not send an
> authentication failed response if it can't reach a proxy. What I would
> prefer is that it simply not respond at all. That would allow my NAS to
> fall back to using a local password if my proxy is down or unreachable.
> A quick look at the source to event.c makes it appear that sending the
> reject is hard coded. Is there some way around this that I'm missing?

  In CVS head, do:

	...
	update control {
		Response-Packet-Type = Do-Not-Respond
	}
	...

  This isn't well documented... mostly because it seems to be a very bad
idea in most cases.

  Alan DeKok.