Freeradius error: "Discarding conflicting packet"

[Sergio Belkin]

2008/10/5 Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>:
> Jelle Langbroek wrote:
>> I can tell you that with my tests, I figured out that it's happening
>> with all sorts of clients (MacOSX, XP, Vista).
>
>  The supplicant's aren't involved here.  It's the NAS that retransmits
> the RADIUS packets.
>
>> It appears only to be
>> happing with the WAP54G (and now the WRT54GL you say). When I replaced
>> the WAP54G with a WAP200, the errors disappeared with the same clients.
>
>  i.e. the WAP54G is broken.  It doesn't do RADIUS properly.
>
>> I tested this on many locations with many different clients and
>> everywhere the same results. It must be the WAP54G then.
>
>  Yes.
>
>> I'm still using those AP's and I keep getting the error in the logs.
>> It's indeed quite random. The error seems not harmful (although the
>> sourcecode of freeRadius says the AP is broken).
>
>  :)  It's a common complaint on this list.  Some issues are FreeRADIUS
> bugs.  Others are broken NASes.
>
>  I'm in the process of putting together a RADIUS validation test suite,
> so that manufacturers can see if their products are compliant *before*
> shipping them.
>
>  Alan DeKok.
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I think is worthwhile to remark that that problem exists even using
OpewnWRT on Linksys WRT54GL and not using original firmware...

Is there a way to at least to minimize those errors? I've heard some
people complains that sometimes try to reconnect and sometimes the
only solution is reboot the AP.

Thanks in advance!
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