Unable to authenticate locally when remote proxy server is unavailable

[Alan DeKok]

Jyoti Chatterjee wrote:
> Actually, the requirement states that if the remote proxy server should
> authenticate all associate requests when it is up. When the remote
> proxy server is down only then the authentication can be done locally
> with the information cached from a previous successful request. 

  EAP doesn't work that way.  Your requirement is impossible to implement.


> I might be able to perform local authentication for an EAP-PEAP request
> coming from the client using self-signed certificates. Do you agree?

  No.

> Is there a specific configuration that you are talking about? I was
> never able to capture "status-server" packets using a tool like
> ethereal.

  Did I say to use ethereal?  No.  I said to read proxy.conf.  Did you
do that?  No.

  Why?  If you're not interested in getting help on this list, don't ask
questions here.

  Alan DeKok.