(ASCEND) Ascend, ~raddb/logfile error messages

[Lasse Andersson <lasse@netcraft.se>]

Hi,

We are using Ascend 1.16 and in the logfile (~raddb/logfile) fills up with
quite a lot of these messages from time to time :

Thu Jan 27 09:52:32 2000: Warning: backlog of 103 exceeds 100 requests
Thu Jan 27 09:52:32 2000: Warning: backlog of 104 exceeds 100 requests
Thu Jan 27 09:52:32 2000: Warning: backlog of 105 exceeds 100 requests

All authentication and accounting is done through proxy radius servers 
driven by another organisation.

The explanation in the source code that generates the message is this :

/* Scan our list of pending requests (authentication, accounting, and
   address allocation).  Weed out requests that have died of old age.
   If the given AUTHREQ is already on our list, retransmit our reply
   if we have one, and discard the request as a duplicate if we don't
   yet have a reply.  If we spawned a child to handle the request,
   send it a SIGHUP every time the duplicate request arrives here,
   prompting the child to retransmit the reply.  If the request was a
   duplicate which we handled as above, return TRUE to notify our
   caller that no further action is required.  */

* Is this due to overload in our radius server or should we increase backlog or
is this normal for 100000+ accounts or we in some kind of trouble?.


In the ~raddb/logfile we also get quite a lot of two other messages :

Thu Jan 27 10:24:06 2000: ~radius/bin/radiusd:Couldn't open \
/etc/raddb/users for reading

Thu Jan 27 10:24:06 2000: Authenticate: machine.net.net1645, \
id=68: Missing Radius Users File: joe.user@company.com

* The users file exist and the user is a legitime user, but this messages
keep coming up?.


Would be great hear some comments on this.


Kindly

Lasse Andersson
 



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