monitoring freeradius with nagios

[James Wakefield]

Mike wrote:
> All,
> When trying to use the "radauth" tool from nagios to monitor
> freeradius, I get the following in the freeradius log:
> 
> Error: WARNING: Malformed RADIUS packet from host ... too long (length
> 18432 > maximum 4096)
> 
> radtest seems to be ok.  has anyone else experienced this or knows
> what is wrong?
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G'day Mike,

Fire up wireshark or tcpdump and have a look what's actually in the packets.

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James Wakefield,
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Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria 3217 Australia.

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