Stefan Winter wrote: > the configuration of 2.1.10 has the parameter num_answers_to_alive in > proxy.conf. Looking at the source code, I found that instead, in > realms.c, the config option num_pings_to_alive is used. num_answers is > read from the config, but never referenced.
No. Both reference the same entry in the home server structure. The proxy.conf file is correct, and it works. > If that's the case, then the config option in proxy.conf should be > changed to be num_pings_to_alive, otherwise people will likely fail to > tweak the value. But they're not "pings". The name "ping" existed for a short time in 2.0, and was quickly removed. It's still there for backwards compatibility, and will be removed in 3.0 > Speaking of tweaking the value, I also found > > if (home->num_pings_to_alive < 3) home->num_pings_to_alive = 3; > if (home->num_pings_to_alive > 10) home->num_pings_to_alive = 10; > > > The documentation says that 3..10 are *useful* ranges, but doesn't > mention that everything else is forbidden. In particular, I would like > to use 1, not 3. The idea is: the server was dead before, but now it > managed to send a reply back - so it must have been fixed. I would like > to mark it alive immediately. Is that unreasonable? If you want... but it's really not a good idea. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
