Avoid restart freeradius on config update to modules

[Suriya Shankar]

Hi Alan,

We have multiple virtual servers with multiple ca certs.
Hoping by reloading instead, only the authentications with the servers that
have changes gets dropped.

Thanks,
Suriya

On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>
wrote:

> 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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