> >We have 2 portmasters, pm2e and pm2er, connected to our local ethernet.
> >The traffic on the LAN is pretty light, however, sometimes we cannot ping
> >our PMs. Like this morning, I could ping all the hosts on the LAN except PMs.
> >Those PMs were still working, answering the phone but couldn't get users
> >authenticated coz they couldnt reach the radius server. I did a reboot
> >but it didn't help. Is there something clever with the RIP or ? We still run
> >3.1.4 but i think it should not be the problem. Hmm...should I run a
> >script to ping the PMs periodically and beep the engineers, get them off
> >bed when PMs are doing this again ? Anybody has a idea ??
> >
> >Thanks in advnace,
> >Tony.
>
> I am having a problem too where the network goes into a mode where the
> Portmaster returns "Host Unavailable" and authentication requests do not
> seem to be reaching the RADIUS server, authentication for the users stored
> in the Portmasters user table still function normally.
>
> Most of the time the RADIUS authentication works correctly but when this
> problem occurs it will stay that way for an hour or more but eventually
> starts working again without anything being done to it.
we have had the same problem. an hour or more is about right.
dave
>
> I believe I have been able to ping between the two when in this mode but I
> will reconfirm that. I am also running DNS and email services on the RADIUS
> machine (all on the same NIC) and they continue to function when this
> problem hits.
>
> The traffic on my LAN is also light.
>
> Jim
>