I am trying to get configurable failover working.(ok, this example is not yet that far) With authenticate { #ldap1 group { ldap1 { notfound = return } } } in radiusd.conf I get: rlm_ldap: LDAP radiusPortLimit mapped to RADIUS Port-Limit rlm_ldap: LDAP radiusLoginLATPort mapped to RADIUS Login-LAT-Port rlm_ldap: LDAP radiusReplyMessage mapped to RADIUS Reply-Message conns: 0x8117ff8 Module: Instantiated ldap (ldap1) radiusd.conf[1862] Unknown Auth-Type "_UnNamedGroup" in authenticate section. Errors setting up modules changing this to authenticate { ldap1 #group { #ldap1 { #notfound = return #} #} # } freeradius starts without problems. radiusd -v radiusd: FreeRADIUS Version 1.1.0-pre0, for host i686-pc-linux-gnu, built on Nov 22 2005 at 22:02:26 Norbert Wegener