Freeradius-Users Digest, Vol 124, Issue 27, Addition to the Re: OS X Mavericks not connecting to Debian FreeRADIUS Thread

[Edward Ulrich]

Ha ha!  I just realized I made a mistake in one of my postings.. I 
shouldn’t have been confused about what the WAN IP is as opposed to the 
LAN IP..  I forgot the WAN IP is the IP address for the internet 
connection over the internet— the “WIDE” area network, as opposed to 
“LOCAL” area network being the LAN of course.. For some reason it was in 
my mind that it meant “WIRELESS” area network when I typed that message, 
even though I should have known better.   So no wonder you were 
face-palming themselves about that..  Also I did make another IP address 
goof in an early posting as well, but I do think most of the other 
points I made are valid.

Laugh if you want, but one other issue I was confused about with 
potentially using the LAN address of the router is the fact that since 
it is used to access the router admin page, I thought that perhaps it is 
dedicated to only doing that and would have caused conflicts when used 
for other purposes.  Like I said before, I think it would have been 
helpful to have a wireless router example in the config file and for it 
to mention the word LAN IP for that specific instance.  Normally trial 
and error would clarify such issues, but the nature of FreeRAIDUS being 
a chain where any misconfiguration along the way breaks the entire 
process makes configuration a challenge.  I do know how to read the log 
files and I try to use them the best that I can.

Anyway, as you can see, I’m not a career sys admin..  But I do know my 
way around computers and I know Linux well enough.  I realize how deep 
and complex FreeRADIUS can get, but I think I will eventually be able to 
implement it just fine for my purposes.  You have been helpful so far 
despite the ribbings.. ;-)

I’m determined to get a basic secure setup running.  I thank you for 
your help so far.

Edward