Adding a NAS via SQL

Peter Nixon listuser at peternixon.net
Sat Jul 28 17:01:12 CEST 2007


On Fri 27 Jul 2007, Paul Lambert wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I think I might be being a little dense but when I add a NAS to my SQL
> database, it doesn't appear to be enabled until I restart my radius
> server.

Yep. Thats to way it's designed to protect against DoS attacks, otherwise 
every inbound packet from an unknown IP would trigger an SQL query which 
would mean killing a server would be possible with a few KB of spoofed UDP 
packets..

> Is there a way to automatically activate a new NAS device that I add to
> the SQL database?

cron ;-)

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Peter Nixon
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