HA scenario = failure

[Rob Walker]

thanks Alan.

On 9 February 2015 at 09:15, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:

> On Feb 9, 2015, at 11:09 AM, Rob Walker <rob3rt.walk3r at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm a freerad newb, trying to get my HP Procurve 2910al working with 2
> > freerad servers (setup identically) and windows/linux endpoints. I've
> > tested this setup successfully against each individual freerad server ok.
> > As soon as I test stopping one of the free radius server hosts so that
> the
> > 2910al is forced to try the other freerad server (testing a HA scenario)
> -
> > authentication fails.
>
>   That’s bad.
>
> > I can only guess that it's something the switch is mishandling?
>
>   Yes.
>
> > If someone
> > could advise on the below outputs it would be appreciated, it seems the
> > packet length is much less when it doesn't work?
>
>   The packet length doesn’t matter.  What matters is the the switch sends
> a packet to the server.  That’s good.  The server responds.  That’s good.
> The switch never sends another packet.  That’s bad.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
>
>
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