[Chilli] Radius 256 Request per port limit

[Szlezak, Alexander]

Hi David,

Ok great, something you can help us with ot shall we submit a patch?

Best Alex
Am 08.02.2014 20:03 schrieb "David Bird" <dbird at google.com>:

> I think that would be the way to go -- binding to multiple local ports,
> each having their own radius id counters.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Alexander Szlezak <
> alexander.szlezak at unwired.at> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> We're running coovachilli in a centralized way, thus one daemon is
>> handing the traffic of a large number of access points bridged on layer2
>> with the interface coovachilli is running on.
>>
>> Since the location of the user is relevant to uns (on which ap is a
>> certain cpe located), the access points send a radius accounting packet
>> with the location to chilli, extracts the location id and then proxies the
>> request to our radius server.
>>
>> Issue is, that we have a lot of access points, and radius requests and to
>> us it seems there is a protocol limitation for 256 concurrent radius
>> requests per port. Since coovachilli is proxying all requests on one port
>> to the radius server, we hit that limit.
>>
>> Question is, if there is a workaround, or if it is imaginable to have
>> chilli connect to radius on multiple ports (as this is the descibed
>> workaround in the radius documentation).
>>
>> Would be glad to have your ideas on this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alexander
>>
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