FreeRadius reboot needed on adding a NAS ?

[Alan DeKok]

On Sep 5, 2016, at 9:26 AM, Frederic Fichter <ffichter at mac.com> wrote:
> I thought - but could not remember where I've read/dreamt that - that NAS defined within a SQL db could be added or removed dynamically (i.e. without the need to stop/start FreeRADIUS) ?

  No FreeRADIUS documentation says that.

> Doesn't look to be the case in my lab. OpenWRT NAS, FreeRADIUS 3.0.11. On inserting a new NAS in the NAS table (MySQL db), requests are ignored by FreeRADIUS (as they come from an unknown NAS). Reloading (kill -HUP) the FreeRADIUS process doesn't change the problem, restarting the FreeRADIUS process solves it.

  By default, FreeRADIUS doesn't poll the SQL DB for new clients.

> Is this by design ? Any workaround available to avoid restarting FreeRADIUS everytime we add a NAS ?

  Read raddb/sites-available/dynamic-clients

  Alan DeKok.