hi, why does FREERADIUS accept the client ip-address as: aaa.aaa.aaa.255/32 ??? (in clients.conf) this doesn't have any meaning as source address. what purpose does this serve? --DilipSimha
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 15:56 +0530, DilipSimha.N.M wrote:
hi,
why does FREERADIUS accept the client ip-address as: aaa.aaa.aaa.255/32 ??? (in clients.conf)
this doesn't have any meaning as source address.
Think of netmasks bigger than /24. 10.0.0.0/23 could have 10.0.0.255 as a host address. -- George-Cristian Bîrzan Network Engineer _______________________________________ RCS & RDS Constanta Tel.: +40341.400.401 / +40341.400.402 Fax: +40341.400.450 http://www.rcs-rds.ro _______________________________________ Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such a case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply e-mail.
Of course it has meaning. If your host is on a /23 subnet, then the middle .255 and .0 are perfectly valid hosts. Rgds, Guy On 14/02/06, DilipSimha.N.M <nmdsimha@gmail.com> wrote:
hi,
why does FREERADIUS accept the client ip-address as: aaa.aaa.aaa.255/32 ??? (in clients.conf)
this doesn't have any meaning as source address.
what purpose does this serve?
--DilipSimha
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thanks guys , for the information. --DilipSimha Phil Mayers wrote:
DilipSimha.N.M wrote:
hi,
why does FREERADIUS accept the client ip-address as: aaa.aaa.aaa.255/32 ??? (in clients.conf)
this doesn't have any meaning as source address.
Yes it does. That's a perfectly valid IP address.
what purpose does this serve?
Allowing use of valid IPs? - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
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