On Thu, 2 Nov 1995, Phil Jensen - News Administrator wrote:
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> On Wed, 1 Nov 1995, Brian 'MegaZone' Bikowicz wrote:
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> > I completely disbelieve we caused it though any fault of ours.
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> On Thu, 2 Nov 1995, Charles Scott wrote:
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> > Brian:
> > I think you should be carefull about making such statements. We had
> > this happen to us also, just after updating a PM to 3.1.4. There is
> > nothing I can find in our host or PM configurations which could have
> > caused the symptoms we saw. We have never seen this happen with anything
> > else, and it only affected the hosts ability to talk to the PM, nothing
> > else! (RIP updatess?????)
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> Just because there is nothing -you- can find, doesn't mean it is a RADIUS
> bug, or a problem with your Portmaster. Did you check your interface(s)?
> What operating system are you using? You can find out quite a bit of
> information about your shell host by just typing:
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> # ifconfig <interface>
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> For example:
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> sierra# ifconfig ef0
> ef0: flags=a863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,LINK1,MULTICAST>
> inet 205.199.144.101 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 205.199.144.255
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> It's not a port on the UNIX host, that gets trashed, either. He said he
> was having problems with his network all-around, and not just a single
> port. I've had the same problems myself about a year and a half ago, but
> they were of my doing, and not because of a Portmaster.
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> > Like the others, our PM sent the authentication request to our RADIUS
> > server, but the RADIUS server was unable to get the reply back to the
> > PM. Our logs show that the authentication request was received and the
> > response sent many times for each connection attemp, but the PM never
> > received it. Since you don't need to do anything to the PM to clear the
> > problem, it's obvious that it's the port on the RADIUS host that gets
> > trashed. The question is why!
> > It sure will be interesting to see a routes table from a host that's
> > having this problem.
>
> Agreed.
>
> > Chuck Scott, Pres.
> > Freeway, Inc.
> > cscott@freeway.net
>
> Phil Jensen _\\|//_
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