I have been installing FreeRADIUS 3 on pfSense for about out 5 years and it always came bundled with some version of *mysql57-client* (this or that minor version) and it always worked well with *mysql57-server* (again, this or that minor version), which FreeRADIUS connected to. To give you a context, the last time I installed was about a month ago and the versions were as follows: pfSense -> 2.6.0 (FreeBSD 1.3-STABLE) FreeRADIUS -> 3.0.25 MySQL Client -> 5.736 But the guys at pfSense decided to skip version 13 of FreeBSD and build version 2.7.0 on FreeBSDversion 14. The 2.7.0 version of pfSense comes with *freeradius3-3.2.2* and *mysql80-client-8.0.32_2* . Of course, I could just install *mysql80-client-8.0.32_2* and modify my SQL code a little bit and it would still work. But the problem is that I have Syslog-NG installed on the system and it too connects to the same MySQL instance and though it has been upgraded to version 4.20, it still uses the old *mysql57-client. * So is there a way to get FreeRADIUS 3.2.2 to work with the old MySQL client, you know, using the good old "libdbi" driver? * * -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com