preventing multiple authentication attempts for up to 2 minutes.

Jim Whitescarver jimscarver at gmail.com
Fri Mar 18 14:55:00 CET 2016


"Update timers on the remote system to not retry so quickly?"

I don't think so. Radtest sends three requests just seconds apart, and I
get the correct result every time.

(0) Ignoring duplicate packet from client localhost port 32940 - ID: 2 due
to unfinished request in component authenticate module python

There must be something else causing the problem.

Could it somehow be that the remote client is not sending the retries
quickly enough?  I have no control over the remote client.  I suppose I
could hack radtest to try to duplicate the problem.  I was hoping there
might be something simple I have overlooked.


On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Matthew Newton <mcn4 at leicester.ac.uk>
wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 09:14:43AM -0400, Jim Whitescarver wrote:
> > When I run radtest and a duplicate request comes in I get
> >
> > (0) Ignoring duplicate packet from client localhost port 32940 - ID: 2
> due
> > to unfinished request in component authenticate module python
>
> OK, that makes sense. First still in progress when the duplicate
> comes in.
>
> > in the log.  However, in an actual login attempt from a 3rd party system
> > configured to use this radius instance I often see a second
> authentication
> > attempt almost immediately started while the first is still in progress.
> >
> > How can I prevent this?
>
> Update timers on the remote system to not retry so quickly?
>
> If there has been no reply to the client, then any other requests
> sent are down to the remote client, not FreeRADIUS.
>
> Matthew
>
>
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