RE: Request for Review: Status Server Document

["Glen Zorn" <glenzorn@comcast.net>]

Alan DeKok [mailto://aland@deployingradius.com] writes:

> David B. Nelson wrote:
> >>   And the charter prevents us from creating more RADIUS codes...
> >
> > Not anymore!  :-)  Here are the only restrictions in the *revised*
> charter:
> 
>   Temptation...
> 
>   Adding Ping-Check and Ping-Ack would be nice in theory.  But given
> existing implementations, I'm not sure there's any benefit in doing so.

Existing implementations or not, RADIUS "ping" is just as wasteful of
processing power & bandwidth as it was 10 years ago.  A far better idea IMHO
is to have the server tell its clients when it recovers from a failure/admin
reboot/etc.

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