radiusd not responding to radtest

[John Dennis]

On 02/10/2010 10:30 AM, Colin Byelong wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Im very new to freeradius so apologies if this is a dumb question.
> I installed freeradius2.1.8 on a Fedora 12 system today, when the
> install had finished I started radius with "radiusd -X"
>
> Another window was opened to run radtest:
>
>
> radtest test test localhost 0 testing123
> Sending Access-Request of id 253 to ::1 port 1812
> User-Name = "test"
> User-Password = "test"
> NAS-IP-Address = 127.0.0.1
> NAS-Port = 0
> Sending Access-Request of id 253 to ::1 port 1812
> User-Name = "test"
> User-Password = "test"
> NAS-IP-Address = 127.0.0.1
> NAS-Port = 0
> Sending Access-Request of id 253 to ::1 port 1812
> User-Name = "test"
> User-Password = "test"
> NAS-IP-Address = 127.0.0.1
> NAS-Port = 0
> radclient: no response from server for ID 253 socket 3
>
> I expected to see a Access-Accept or Access-Reject.

Did you open the port in your firewall?

hint: either use system-config-firewall to see if it's open and open it 
if it isn't or use "service iptables status | grep 1812" to quickly 
verify if it's open or not.

-- 
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