Matthew Schumacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to rate limit radius requests?
Not really. > Whenever the router guy kicks a router full of DSL connections we > get a flood of radius accounting messages which overloads the > database server causing "There are no DB handles to use!" error > messages. While the DB can handle the current load, it can get > overrun in certain circumstances. I figure some form of rate > limiting causing the radius server to only handle so many requests > per second might be the solution to this. Or, if the rate gets too high, *stop* logging to the database, and use a "detail" file. Then, when the rate drops, feed the detail file back into the server. > Another question I have is what exactly happens with that error message, > does radius retry to insert the accounting record or does it simply drop it? The request is dropped. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
