[tac_plus] Re: error messages tac-plus

[john heasley]

Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:02:56AM +0200, Bergs, Martin:
> Hi,
> 
> wie have also Ipanema boxes talking TACACS+ with our server.
> Authentication, authorisation and accounting work fine, but there are a
> lot of error messages in our syslog server concerning the Ipanema
> devices.
> 
> Apr  3 09:37:24 dsd-scope tac_plus[958]: Error 192.168.182.24 tty65:
> Null reply packet, expecting CONTINUE
> Apr  3 09:37:24 dsd-scope tac_plus[961]: Error 192.168.182.204 tty65:
> Null reply packet, expecting CONTINUE
> Apr  3 09:37:24 dsd-scope tac_plus[963]: Error 192.168.182.139 tty65:
> Null reply packet, expecting CONTINUE
> Apr  3 09:37:24 dsd-scope tac_plus[964]: Error 192.168.182.45 tty5: Null
> reply packet, expecting CONTINUE
> 
> Do you have an idea what the reason for all that error messages are? How
> to stop tac_plus from logging this messages?

This occurs when a device connects, authentication begins, then the device
disconnects or the tacacs session times out.  This is a bug in the device.
Some recent Cisco IOSs have aquired a similar bug, but I've not yet tracked
it precise behavior for a bug report.

> Yours Sincerely / Mit freundlichen Gruessen
> Martin Bergs
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