I also noticed that the primary home server that I am proxying to never gets marked as dead.
As per the instructions in proxy.conf I have synchronous = no. In the past I remember seeing in radius.log servers being marked as dead, but I no longer see this. Thanks, --------- Original Message -------- From: [email protected] To: FreeRadius Users List <[email protected]> Subject: Proxy.conf and fail_over Date: 19/01/05 15:13 > > Hello, > > I am running FR 1.0.0 on Red Hat 9.0. I am proxying > requests to a realm that has a primary and secondary > radius server and cannot get fail_over to work when > the primary goes down. > > Using radtest I can send requests directly to the > primary and secondary home server. I can also proxy > requests through my radius to the primary server. However > when I shut the primary home server down and then try to > proxy requests, I always get: > > Rejecting request 0 due to lack of any response from home server. > > I have tried including the ldflag in my proxy.conf, though I thought > this was default behavior. Here is the entry in proxy.conf > > # Primary Server > realm xyz.com { > type = radius > authhost = 10.1.1.10:1645 > accthost = LOCAL > secret = test123 > ldflag = fail_over > # nostrip > } > # Secondary Server > realm xyz.com.com { > type = radius > authhost = 10.1.1.11:1645 > accthost = LOCAL > secret = test123 > ldflag = fail_over > # nostrip > } > > Am I missing something else? What else is required to get > fail_over to work? > > Thanks, > > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > > > > > > > - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

