NAS's and client's? what's the difference and where are theyand where defined?

[tnt at kalik.co.yu]

You can also put them in the table called "nas" if you are using SQL.
You will need to set readclients to yes (at the very end of sql.conf).

Ivan Kalik
Kalik Informatika ISP


Dana 6/8/2007, "Kevin Bailey" <kbailey at freewayprojects.com> piše:

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>Alan DeKok wrote:
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>    What are the differences between clients and NAS's? - Where should they
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>  A Network Access Server (NAS) is a RADIUS client.  It should be
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>    I seem to have been able to connect the client box by adding an entry
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>Sorry - this should have been clients.conf
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># Test connection to AF-IT Epygi box.
>client quadro.af-it.com {
>        secret          = password
>        shortname       = afit_test
>        nastype         = epygi
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>But this is not showing up under the NAS list in the dialupadmin
>interface - under Radius clients, NAS administration.
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>So can clients be stored in various places? - or should I only use
>/etc/freeradius/clients.conf for the freeradius server.  This was the
>place which seemed to work.
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>Have spent several days reading as much online as possible and now have
>the system authenticating calls from a VOIP box - but it's a big
>subject to get on board!
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