Change FreeRADIUS Default Port Number

Russell Mike radius.sir at gmail.com
Fri Jan 23 11:10:19 CET 2015


Thanks Arran

i got you point. We are wireless ISP, own data network across the country.
Attacks are sourced from behind our NAS. We have about 100 coovachilli NAS
and over 300 Motorola AP NAS.

Thanks



On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Arran Cudbard-Bell <
a.cudbardb at freeradius.org> wrote:

>
> > On 23 Jan 2015, at 16:13, Russell Mike <radius.sir at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings Experts
> >
> > I often notice attacks on our FreeRADIUS server. To stop these attacks, i
> > am thinking to change the default authentication port from 1812 to
> > something different.
> >
> > 1.) Is it correct thing to do ?
> > 2.) Would it even help ? Stop or reduce fake auth attempts ?
> > 3.) How do we modify the default port to set different port for
> FreeRADIUS?
>
> Where are the auth attempts originating from? Must be a trusted source,
> else
> they wouldn't be processed.
>
> Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb at freeradius.org>
> FreeRADIUS development team
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