Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
>
> On 1999-06-18T09:11:30,
> "Mike McCauley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > The theory is that using TCP allows the apps to get a better handle on poor
> > network connections or down/unreachable radius servers than the
> > simple UDP protocol.
> >
> > Does that seem like a good idea to anyone?
>
> Partly a good idea.
>
> First thing which comes to my mind is that fact that TCP will lose packets
> just like UDP on saturated links - it just provides a buildin recovery
> mechanism, it resends the packets. The RADIUS protocol does this too.
>
Well, I think that you earn nothing by TCP'ing out the Auth requests. If
you start losing data the odds are that the PPP user connection times
out... However I can see that Acct should go TCP...
Someone else also said that Radius provides for retransmissions (even if
UDP doesn't) Have you thought what happens when a Radius server ACK
packet gets lost? I wish you never live a Radius Storm (tm)
> Next, I think if you need an additional layer of reliability between your
> RADIUS servers, your network is probably a bit larger than mine ;) And you are
> likely to get many RADIUS packets/second. Maybe it would make more sense to
> replicate the auth data to each POP and also provide a speedup.
This really makes sense...
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