Re: (ASCEND) Intermittent LAN security errors

[J-Mag Guthrie <j-mag@brokersys.com>]

On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Jack Daniels wrote:

> Recently, our Ascend server has begun to intermittently report LAN security
> errors, when the username and password being supplied are correct.  Our
> system is configured as follows :-
> 
> Ascend box :-
> Ascend Max 4060, System software v6.1.7, all 60 lines incoming are on a 
> 
> Two RADIUS servers doing authentication :-
> Running Solaris 2.5.1, RADIUS v1.16 (Ascend extensions) 1998/18/06,
> dictionary 29.72 1998/08/18
> 
> Rebooting the RADIUS servers and/or the Ascend servers had no effect.
> fsck'ing of all the filesystems on both RADIUS servers has shown no errors,
> and the details in the RADIUS users file are definitely correct, and
> correlate with the details that the users are supplying.  There seems to be
> no pattern at all - every so often, the Ascend server starts reporting LAN
> security errors for certain users, even when they are definitely supplying
> the correct details.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea why this is happening ?  We've tried everything
> we could think of, and have been unable to rectify the problem.

If they're c=101, have the customer reset their modem.  This has always
been with internal modems in Windows and restarting (actually, shutting
down, powering off and powering up again) has fixed it every time.

- J-Mag Guthrie

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