Re: Dropping conflicting authentication packet

[aland]

 Qinxue Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem seems to be that the new request has the same  request ID,
> request code, source IP, source port, but different vectors (what's this?)

  It means that the request is a new one, and different from the first
on.

  The RFC's specifically allow for this.

> as one of the old requests.  From the problem I saw, it is not caused by the
> NAS end. The freeradius didn't clear some old requests properly in the
> buffer for whatever reasons. Some request IDs stayed for about several
> hours. I am not quiet sure about the whole process in the software. If Alan
> or Chris could explain a little bit, it will be greatly appreciated.

  There's not much to say.  It looks like the server has a bug.

  Alan DeKok.

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