Synchronous + Asynchronous proxying

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Wed May 9 13:49:13 CEST 2012


mimir wrote:
> According to proxy.conf asynchronous configuration is disabled.
> I want to manage the realms by setting parameter synchronous or
> asynchronous, means that switch the configuration each other. Asynchronous
> is needed to queue the accounting packages, retransmission etc.
> Do you have any comment on this?

  Asynchronous proxying has few good use-cases.  It can cause more
problems than it solves.  That's why it was removed from the server.
The NAS is supposed to retransmit.  So it's simpler for the server to
wait for that retransmission.

  Can you give a concrete use-case for why this is necessary?

  Alan DeKok.


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