On Jun 29, 2025, at 10:31 PM, Kat via Freeradius-Users <freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org> wrote:
3. Third problem: how can I tell if I have successfully started freeradius in debug mode? freeradius -v does not say which mode it is running in. Despite my attempts to start in debug mode, I suspect it is not in debug mode.
The documentation on this is very extensive. wiki.freeradius.org/radiusd-X <http://wiki.freeradius.org/radiusd-X> for one. and wiki.freeradius.org/list-help Or "man radiusd". Or "radiusd -h".
This is how the Bob initial test result looks: Sent Access-Request Id 217 from 0.0.0.0:49095 to 127.0.0.1:1812 length 73 User-Name = "bob" User-Password = "test" NAS-IP-Address = 172.17.0.6 NAS-Port = 0 Message-Authenticator = 0x00 Cleartext-Password = "test" Received Access-Accept Id 217 from 127.0.0.1:1812 to 127.0.0.1:49095 length 38 Message-Authenticator = 0xdf169e01bb4399fada2b31bbde5e7ff3
So is it possible to tell from this whether freeradius is running in debug mode?
No. You cannot tell what the server is doing by look at the client output. Alan DeKok.