Fwd: Child is hung (max_request)

[Alan DeKok]

srithar jeevadurai wrote:
> To make it simple, 
> 
> Is it possible to do following thing will FreeRadius?

  No.  It's not possible right now.

> 1) collect auth request and response by itself.
> 2) collect accounting request and send it via TCP/IP to another process
> in the same host (say rad to dia converter). 
> 3) collect response from the external process on same host (rad to dia
> converter) and send as radius response.
> 
> In that way, I can use freeRadius as upfront module to handle the
> incoming radius request and FreeRadius server will process request and
> response idependently i.e. asyncronus.

  Implementing a robust proxy is *much* more difficult than just reading
and writing packets.  There are many additional things you need to do.

  The complexity in FreeRADIUS is there for a reason.  It's *needed*.
It's not just complexity for the sake of complexity.

  Alan DeKok.