Disconnect-Request packet

[N White]

Alan DeKok wrote:

>N White <nwtech at tele-net.net> wrote:
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>>Ok. I am trying to figure out how to disconnect a user, or to tell the 
>>radius server to send a disconnect packet to the NAS for a specific 
>>user. This is the command I am using:
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>>echo "User-Name = nickwhite" | radclient 192.168.1.1 disconnect mysecret -x
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>  Is 192.168.1.1 the IP address of the NAS?
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>>ad_recv: Disconnect-Request packet from host 192.168.1.2:47874, id=139, 
>>length=31
>>Unknown packet code 40 from client 192.168.1.2:47874 - ID 139 : IGNORED
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>  FreeRADIUS doesn't listen for disconnect packets.  And, you're
>sending the disconnect packet to the authentication port.  There's a
>special port for disconnects, but I forget what it is.
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>>But why then is there a command as part of radclient to disconnect, and 
>>what does that response exactly mean. Is there any way to accomplish 
>>this?(disconnecting a user via radclient?)
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>  Send the disconnect packet to the NAS.
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>  Alan DeKok.
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Yes 192.168.1.1 is the NAS. I thought that's what radclient did - told 
the RADIUS server to send a disconnect to the NAS that the client(user) 
is connected to. I've tried sending the disconnect to the 
NAS(Portmaster). Any particular port?

Thanks.

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