Accounting data is considered critical data and it is kept in the machine
until either there is an ack from an accounting server or, as you have
seen, the ComOS 'wigs out'.
JGT
At 01:46 AM 5/1/97 -0400, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
>
>Strange.
>
>nac-new6> ver
>Livingston PortMaster PM-3 ComOS 3.5c6
>System uptime is 53 days 4 hours 0 minutes
>
>And that is when it was upgraded.
>
>The only STRANGE thing I have seen, and this is not a PM3 issue, but a PM
>issue runnign 3.5x, is the following:
>
>When the Radius Accounting (not AUTH) server is down, and Acct oackets get
>held up in the PM, the PM starts to wig out, showing lots and lots of
>ports in the 'CONNECTING' state, with no one actually on the port. Has
>anyone else seen this?
>
>
>
>
>On Thu, 1 May 1997, Edward Henigin wrote:
>
>>
>> pm3's are crap.
>>
>> We have 5 of them, (3 for a couple of months) and I've yet to get
>> my problem resolved with them.
>>
>
>
>
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