I believe that my Free Radius server is working, since I can query it successfully with "auth": % echo "User-Name = bortzmeyer\nUser-Password = foobar" | radclient jezabel auth mysharedsecret Received response ID 187, code 2, length = 44 Service-Type = Framed-User ... % echo "User-Name = bortzmeyer\nUser-Password = wrong" | radclient jezabel auth mysharedsecret Received response ID 189, code 3, length = 20 But "status" always fail: % echo "NAS-port = 1" | radclient jezabel status mysharedsecret radclient: no response from server for ID 198 (Same thing with 12 instead of status) On the server, running with -X, I just get: WARNING: Insecure packet from host 10.1.82.1: Packet does not contain required Message-Authenticator attribute Free Radius 1.1.7, Debian "lenny" OS