NAS's and client's? what's the difference and where are they and where defined?

6 Aug 2007

      Hi,

I have Debian Etch installed with Freeradius and dialupadmin packages.

Versions are

ii  freeradius                  1.1.3-3                     a 
high-performance and highly configurable RADIUS server
ii  freeradius-dialupadmin      1.1.3-3                     set of PHP 
scripts for administering a FreeRADIUS server
ii  freeradius-mysql            1.1.3-3                     MySQL module 
for FreeRADIUS server

Now two months ago I set the system up and it authenticates an Epygi 
VOIP box and keeps accounts records for the calls made.

Now I need to carry out further work - I had got things working but 
never fully cleared it in my head.

My questions are fundemental.

What are the differences between clients and NAS's? - Where should they 
be defined?

I seem to have been able to connect the client box by adding an entry 
into client.com

# 03/05/2007 - kbailey
# Test connection to AF-IT Epygi box.
client quadro.af-it.com {
        secret          = password
        shortname       = afit_test
        nastype         = epygi
}

But this is not showing up under the NAS list in the dialupadmin 
interface - under Radius clients, NAS administration.

Also, I see that the /etc/freeradius/naslist file is deprecated in 
favour of clients.conf - but there is also a 
/etc/freeradius-dialupadmin/naslist.conf file.  This has some default 
servers in it.

I'm almost tempted to think that the /etc/freeradius/clients.conf file 
is the only file which should be used - but I've heard that there are 
two things which are separate - clients and NAS's.

Also, why are there the two references in the dialupadmin app - on web 
page and in naslist.conf?

Thanks,

Kevin

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Kevin Bailey
IT Consultant

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