Setup questions- client & user secrets

[Padmanabhan Ramaswamy]

Hi. I'm fairly new to the RADIUS stuff. I'm trying to setup FreeRadius
1.0.1 as a failover (secondary) server on a remote network. I've
RadTest-ed and NTRadPing-ed the basic installation and it seems to work
fine. My current RADIUS server is a commercial product running on a Win
2k machine (local network). 
 
Exporting the clients & users data from this server for use in the
FreeRadius server gave me encrypted secrets for both clients & users.
The secret strings I get are all 264 characters long. I tried using
these as-is in 'clients.conf' and the 'users' files. FreeRadius won't
even start with these. Should I be using these encrypted secrets in the
clients.conf & users files at all or should I ask for the cleartext
secrets from the NAS clients and use those instead? I'm using plain PPP
(NAS clients' requirement). Does that mean I can use PAP and CHAP
authentication or PAP only?
 
Thanks.
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