I have been running FreeRadius for about 2 weeks now in a limited live trial without any problems until today. The system was handling about 5000-8000 requests per day, but suddenly I started getting the dreaded 'Dropping duplicate authentication packet' message in the logs. At the same time authentication became intermittent, the server only responding to some auth requests and ignoring others. It also appears that the system was using a large number of threads at the time. Looking at the list archives I see that this problem has been reported before, but without any real resolution, possibly because it is so difficult to reproduce.
Unfortunately I could not get any diagnostic details from the server when this happened as it was in a live environment. It did disappear however after stopping and restarting radiusd. I think this is a very serious problem that needs to be resolved urgently. I suspect that this is caused by some race condition that only manifests itself under very rare conditions. BTW at the time I was running the Nov 8 snapshot, authentication from file and accounting to mySQL. Thanks, Dieter _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
