Avoid restart freeradius on config update to modules
Alan DeKok
aland at deployingradius.com
Sat Jan 11 20:17:29 UTC 2025
On Jan 10, 2025, at 9:01 PM, Suriya Shankar <suriya.dshankar at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's a RadSec connection, On each restart the connection between the NAS
> and the Radius Server drops and reestablishes on the next authentication.
> By making the EAP module HUP'd I noticed the established connection was
> unaffected but yes the clients had to re authenticate again. Is my
> understanding correct?
Yes. But that doesn't answer my question.
Think about the "fix" for a bit. The radsec connections stay up, but all authentications fail. How is that any different from just restarting the server?
You're just moving the problem from one location to another. This patch doesn't actually fix anything.
Alan DeKok.
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