Merit Radius tenderness [was Re: oh shit continues] (fwd)

MegaZone ((no email))
Thu, 15 Feb 1996 19:00:25 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Dennis Simpson shaped the electrons to say...
>I beg your pardon? If the daemon receives invalid data, it should deal
>with the situation, not blow up. The portmaster may have triggered it,
>but that doesn't make it Livingston's fault.

1. I agree the daemon should not die when getting bad data.
2. But it doesn't mean we should be happy it got it, we're working on it.

>Now, on the other hand, if Livingston could see their way clear to
>doing accounting with TCP instead of UDP, that would be welcome. Even
>if they could switch to a reliable UDP (positive acknowledge required)

Umm... This is how RADIUS accounting works. UDP with positive ack required.
The PM will queue accounting packets and continue to retry until it gets
an ack saying it was received.

-MZ

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