Proxy Timeout Behavior

[David Mitchell]

David Mitchell wrote:
> 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?
>> Thanks in advance,
> 
> I solved this with the following in radiusd.conf, in case any body else
> has the same problem.

This should say it's in sites-enabled/default, not radiusd.conf. Oops.

-David Mitchell

> 
> post-proxy {
>         #  If the server tries to proxy a request and the request
> 	#  times out, then the
>         #  request is processed through the modules in this section.
>         #
>         # 'fail' causes the server to ignore the request, so the NAS
>         # will fall back to the line/enable/whatever password.
>         Post-Proxy-Type Fail {
>                 fail
>         }
> 
> }
> 
>> -David Mitchell
>>
> 
> 


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