Megazone: This bud's for you... (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:01:41 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Jason Hatch shaped the electrons to say...
>What would happen is, when certain users logged in, they'd be given an IP
>address by the portmaster, that wasn't that address they ended up with.
>Here's an example of one user...
>
>User logs in using trumpet winsock, gets a line like this from the
>portmaster:

Note the recent thread where this was discussed. Trumpet has a well known
bug and it sometimes reuses an old IP from a previous session, or some IP
the user has set. During PPP negotiation, which you can see with debug
flags, it lies and agress to the one the PM assigns - but them uses the other
one anyway. This is a clear violation of the protocol on their part.

>Normally trumpet would come back with MY IP ADDRESS IS, but in this case,
>depending on which time you tried, it either DID NOT, or it would come
>back with a different address that wasn't 56.

Sounds just like the bug. Bad news - nothing you can do from your end, the
user has to clear the IP out of Trumpet. Sounds like they have 2.0b, 2.1f
supposedly fixed this.

>in. It would start to assign the IP address, gripe about an "unknown
>request type 61" send an ACK and then repeat a couple of steps before

Which means you never updated the dictionary file to handle the latest
ComOS as per the release notes. The PM is sending a new field in the
packets and RADIUS has no idea what it is until the dictionary is updated
and the daemon restarted.

-MZ

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