Chilli sometimes incorrectly NOT authorising a user by MAC

[wlanmac]

Chilli (with the 'macauth') option only does MAC authentication when
asked for a DHCP lease. It does this only the *first* time the lease is
requested. The second time (or anytime thereafter) the device asks for a
lease (that is still active), chilli is simply respond. 

There is a new option in 1.0.13 callled 'macreauth' which will have
chilli attempt a MAC authentication every time a user is redirected (in
addition to the above use of 'macauth'). 

On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 09:26 +0100, Derek C wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm using Coova Chilli to authorise users by Mac address against a
> freeradius server.
> 
> Generally it works fine but sometimes I find that Coova Chilli glitches
> and doesn't authenticate a user, by mac, against the freeradius server
> even though their mac IS in the radcheck table - but 99% of the time it
> does check perfectly against the freeradius server is no problems.
> 
> I'm wondering if its a time-out problem between Coova Chilli and the
> freeradius server?
> 
> Are there some settings for the chilli.conf file to increase the time-out
> times or retry times for accessing the freeradius server?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Derek
> 
>