From: Alan T. DeKok <aland@freeradius.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:49:58 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Document "max_outstanding" for home servers
X-Git-Tag: release_3_0_0_beta0~766
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Document "max_outstanding" for home servers
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diff --git a/raddb/proxy.conf b/raddb/proxy.conf
index 611287d94f4..90232e4df28 100644
--- a/raddb/proxy.conf
+++ b/raddb/proxy.conf
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ proxy server {
 #  indicates which server pool should be used for the realm.
 #
 #  This change means that simple configurations now require multiple
-#  ssections to define a realm.  However, complex configurations
+#  sections to define a realm.  However, complex configurations
 #  are much simpler than before, as multiple realms can share the same
 #  server pool.
 #
@@ -403,6 +403,17 @@ home_server localhost {
 	#  Useful range of values: 3 to 10
 	num_answers_to_alive = 3
 
+	#
+	#  Limit the total number of outstanding packets to the home
+	#  server.
+	#
+	#  if ((#request sent) - (#requests received)) > max_outstanding
+	#	then stop sending more packets to the home server
+	#
+	#  This lets us gracefully fall over when the home server
+	#  is overloaded.
+	max_outstanding = 65536
+
 	#
 	#  The configuration items in the next sub-section are used ONLY
 	#  when "type = coa".  It is ignored for all other type of home