slow password lookups suddenly

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <200109091629.MAA09560@mail.colba.net>,
Michael Kolos  <michael@colba.net> wrote:
>I have been running 1.6.5 (2001-08-15 snapshot) for a while and things
>have been fine.

There is a critical bug inthere that messes up the radutmp file
i.e. the session database.

>More recently though, I have seen a lot of duplicate authentication
>packets... and the system load due to radius has gone sky high.
>The problem is not that the NAS is not receiving the packets, it is
>taking a long time so it keeps retrying.

Is your /var/run/radutmp file very, very big?

>Any ideas?

Upgrade to the latest snapshot, it fixes the radutmp/radwtmp
problems.

Mike.
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