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This configuration file has not been updated for v4, and therefore WILL NOT WORK. Please do not use it.

(1) Define two home servers.

Mark this home server alive ONLY when it starts being responsive

Set the response timeout aggressively low. You MAY have to increase this, depending on tests with your local installation.

Mark this home server alive ONLY when it starts being responsive

Set the response timeout aggressively low. You MAY have to increase this, depending on tests with your local installation.

(2) Put all of the servers into a pool.

add more home_server’s here.

for pre/post-proxy policies

(3) Define a realm for these home servers. It should NOT be used as part of normal proxying decisions!

(4) Define a detail file writer. See raddb/modules/detail.example.com

(5) Define a virtual server to handle pre/post-proxy re-writing Insert pre-proxy rules here

Insert post-proxy rules here

This will be called when the CURRENT packet failed to be proxied. This may happen when one home server suddenly goes down, even though another home server may be alive.

i.e. the current request has run out of time, so it cannot fail over to another (possibly) alive server.

We want to respond to the NAS, so that it can stop resending the packet. We write the packet to the "detail" file, where it will be read, and sent to another home server.

This section is run when there are problems proxying Access-Request packets

add policies here

Read accounting packets from the detail file(s) for the home server.

Note that you can have only ONE "listen" section reading detail files from a particular directory. That is why the destination host name is used as part of the directory name below. Having two "listen" sections reading detail files from the same directory WILL cause problems. The packets may be read by one, the other, or both "listen" sections.

All packets read from the detail file are proxied back to the home servers.

The normal pre/post-proxy rules are applied to them, too.

If the home servers are STILL down, then the server stops reading the detail file, and queues the packets for a later retransmission. The Post-Proxy-Type "Fail" handler is NOT called.

When the home servers come back up, the packets are forwarded, and the detail file processed as normal. You may want accounting policies here…​

Default Configuration

#	This is a sample configuration for robust proxy accounting.
#	accounting packets are proxied, OR logged locally if all
#	home servers are down.  When the home servers come back up,
#	the accounting packets are forwarded.
#	This method enables the server to proxy all packets to the
#	home servers when they're up, AND to avoid writing to the
#	detail file in most situations.
#	In most situations, proxying of accounting messages is done
#	in a "pass-through" fashion.  If the home server does not
#	respond, then the proxy server does not respond to the NAS.
#	That means that the NAS must retransmit packets, sometimes
#	forever.  This example shows how the proxy server can still
#	respond to the NAS, even if all home servers are down.
#	This configuration could be done MUCH more simply if ALL
#	packets were written to the detail file.  But that would
#	involve a lot more disk writes, which may not be a good idea.
#	NOTE: This file is NOT meant to be used as-is.  It needs to be
#	edited to match your local configuration.
home_server home1.example.com {
	type = acct
	ipaddr = 192.0.2.10
	port = 1813
	secret = testing123
	status_check = request
	username = "test_user_status_check"
	response_window = 6
}
home_server home2.example.com {
	type = acct
	ipaddr = 192.0.2.20
	port = 1813
	secret = testing123
	status_check = request
	username = "test_user_status_check"
	response_window = 6
}
home_server_pool acct_pool.example.com {
	type = load-balance	# other types are OK, too.
	home_server = home1.example.com
	home_server = home2.example.com
	virtual_server = home.example.com
}
realm acct_realm.example.com {
	acct_pool = acct_pool.example.com
}
server home.example.com {
	pre-proxy {
	}
	post-proxy {
		Post-Proxy-Type Fail-Accounting {
			detail.example.com
		}
		Post-Proxy-Type Fail-Authentication {
		}
	}
	listen {
		type = detail
		filename = "${radacctdir}/detail.example.com/detail-*:*"
		load_factor = 10
	}
	recv Accounting-Request {
		&control.Proxy-To-Realm := "acct_realm.example.com"
	}
}