Where are these "Client-IP-Address = 127.0.0.1" messages coming from?

Lewis Bergman lbergman at wtxs.net
Thu Jan 12 19:11:27 CET 2006


Matthew Schumacher wrote:
> I'm getting accounting messages like these that seem to be coming from
> the loopback interface, but `tcpdump -i lo` doesn't see them so they are
> not coming from a local client.  If they are not coming from a local
> client then how can I figure out where they are coming from?
> 
> Thu Jan 12 07:19:58 2006
>         Acct-Status-Type = Stop
>         NAS-IP-Address = x.x.x.x      (legit nas IP)
>         Acct-Delay-Time = 0
>         User-Name = "user"
>         NAS-Port = 536936515
>         Acct-Session-Id = "0A000067"
>         Service-Type = Framed-User
>         Framed-Protocol = PPP
>         Framed-IP-Address = x.x.x.x    (legit Framed-IP-Address)
>         Acct-Session-Time = 0
>         Acct-Input-Octets = 0
>         Acct-Output-Octets = 0
>         Acct-Input-Packets = 0
>         Acct-Output-Packets = 0
>         Client-IP-Address = 127.0.0.1
>         Acct-Unique-Session-Id = "1cc41474b27ed376"
>         Timestamp = 1137082798
These appear to be from the loopback of the NAS, not the radius server.

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