Don't be *too* helpful, my head may explode.

Try asking questions about freeradius not how to use a computer. How to find out if a process is running: you type a command at the command prompt and computer lists the running processes. Same on Windows, OS X, Linux or any other operating system. Which command? Read the manual. Ivan Kalik Kalik Informatika ISP

Hi Nicolas, Thanks so much for your answer. What i meant was, in the terminal, what can I type as a test to get a response from a running instance of freeradius. by RAS, I mean Remote Access Server. Also know as a Network Access Server. As I understand it, the PPPoE users first hit the RAS, then the rAS passes the query off to freeRadius, then freeRadius tells the RAS what to do based on the user's validity, and the RAS either accepts or rejects the user. Do I have the concept right? And if so, do you or anyone know of a RAS software that will run on OS X? Another question i have, When I spoke briefly to the folks at Network RADIUS, they told me that freeRadius includes the required db schema for mySQL. When I installed mySQL 5.1, there was a db in there that I didn't recognize, called information_schema, comprised of 28 tables. Is this it, or is there something special I need to do to enable the schema, as i understand from the docs that freeRadius will work with almost any datasource including flatfiles. Thanks in advance. PS, if you're wondering if I'm aware of the irony in my name, the answer is yes ;) On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Nicolas Goutte<nicolas.goutte@extragroup.de> wrote:

Am 03.08.2009 um 21:46 schrieb Radius Master:

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Hi,

I am in the process of setting up freeRADIUS on Mac OSX. We're a small group looking into becoming a WISP. Can anyone tell me if there is a RAS that runs on OSX?

If by RAS, you mean remote access, then MacOSX has plenty of them: - ssh - (direct) remote desktop client (MacOS 10.5; see in Finder) - remote desktop per iChat (MacOS 10.5)

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The install of freeRADIUS itself seems to have gone smoothly, and I installed MySQL 5.1 as well, no hitches. I have not, tho, found out how to tell is freeRADIUS is actually running or not.

If by "actually running or not", you mean that a user could check then use: ps ax If you mean that a program should check I am not sure. A shell script could use ps, fgrep and co to do that.

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Another question i have, When I spoke briefly to the folks at Network RADIUS, they told me that freeRadius includes the required db schema for mySQL. When I installed mySQL 5.1, there was a db in there that I didn't recognize, called information_schema, comprised of 28 tables. Is this it, or is there something special I need to do to enable the schema, as i understand from the docs that freeRadius will work with almost any datasource including flatfiles.

Information_schema is a built in database used to provide information about the mysql database server. You will have to import the required database schemas and configure the sql module to use MySQL as your datastore. See raddb/sql/mysql.