Hi Mike and Hugh But is this stat then not misleading? This is not a dropped request,it was accepted and forwarded??? Perhaps there needs to be another stat that reflects this?
Thanks for the clarification though. :) fred -----Original Message----- From: Mike McCauley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 June 2002 01:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fred Albrecht Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) radpwtst -status Hello Fred, On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 06:50, Hugh Irvine wrote: > Hello Fred - > > I have copied this mail to Mike for his comments, but I would like to see a > copy of your configuration file and a trace 4 debug. > > regards > > Hugh > > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 22:04, Fred Albrecht wrote: > > Hi Hugh > > > > I have attempted to grok the source, but it remains illusive ;) > > > > I fiddled with the code a bit in order to see what would generate my > > dropped accesses (btw I looked at a snoop and saw no reason for the > > rejects, I logged and matched packets by hand! ugh, used radstock also). > > What I did find was that when I proxy a request to RADIUS it increments > > the droppedAccessRequests counter, as in > > > > # IGNORE means no reply > > $p->statsIncrement('droppedRequests', > > 'droppedAccessRequests'); > > > > Is this analysis correct? Well the question is this, will forwarding to > > a proxy increment the droppedAccessRequests value? Yes, provided it is not a Synchronous proxy. When (if) a reply is received the appropriate counter will also be incremented. If no reply is received, the proxiedNoReply counter wil be incremented. Hope that helps. Cheers. > > > > :\ > > > > fred > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Hugh Irvine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 01 June 2002 12:36 AM > > To: Fred Albrecht; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) radpwtst -status > > > > > > > > Hello Fred - > > > > This is from "Radius/ServerConfig.pm" - it is the list of statistics that > > are used when replying to a "Status-Server" request in > > "Radius/Client.pm": > > > > # These are the official names and descriptions of various statistics > > # we keep in each object listed in $p->StatsTrail > > %Radius::ServerConfig::statistic_names = > > ( > > requests => 'Total requests', > > droppedRequests => 'Total dropped requests', > > duplicateRequests => 'Total duplicate requests', > > proxiedRequests => 'Total proxied requests', > > proxiedNoReply => 'Total proxied requests with no reply', > > badAuthRequests => 'Total Bad authenticators in requests', > > responseTime => 'Average response time', > > > > accessRequests => 'Access requests', > > dupAccessRequests => 'Duplicate access requests', > > accessAccepts => 'Access accepts', > > accessRejects => 'Access rejects', > > accessChallenges => 'Access challenges', > > malformedAccessRequests => 'Malformed acccess requests', > > badAuthAccessRequests => 'Bad authenticators in authentication > > requests', droppedAccessRequests => 'Dropped access requests', > > > > accountingRequests => 'Accounting requests', > > dupAccountingRequests => 'Duplicate accounting requests', > > accountingResponses => 'Accounting responses', > > malformedAccountingRequests => 'Malformed accounting requests', > > badAuthAccountingRequests => 'Bad authenticators in accounting > > requests', droppedAccountingRequests => 'Dropped accounting requests', > > ); > > > > > > "Dropped access requests" means access requests that have been received > > by the server but not processed, such as requests from unkown clients. > > > > May the source be with you...... > > > > :-) > > > > cheers > > > > Hugh > > > > On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 00:12, Fred Albrecht wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > When doing a radpwtst with -status, what does the line with "Dropped > > > access requests" mean? Is this the number of access-request rejects? > > > > > > :) > > > > > > fred > > > === > > > Archive at http://www.open.com.au/archives/radiator/ > > > Announcements on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with > > > 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message. -- Mike McCauley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open System Consultants Pty. Ltd Unix, Perl, Motif, C++, WWW 24 Bateman St Hampton, VIC 3188 Australia http://www.open.com.au Phone +61 3 9598-0985 Fax +61 3 9598-0955 Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server anywhere. SQL, proxy, DBM, files, LDAP, NIS+, password, NT, Emerald, Platypus, Freeside, TACACS+, PAM, external, Active Directory etc etc on Unix, Win95/8, 2000, NT, MacOS 9, MacOS X etc etc === Archive at http://www.open.com.au/archives/radiator/ Announcements on [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.
