radiusd deadlock on recvfrom on port 1814

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Tue Nov 6 23:35:24 CET 2007


Ryan Melendez wrote:
> Am I right to assume the only time data should be read on port 1814 is
> when there is a reply to a proxied request?

  Yes.

>  Specifically freeradius
> proxied a auth/acct packet on port 1814 and the "home" server replied on
> port 1814.  The only data that should show up on 1814 is that reply from
> the home server?

  Yes.

  Or, attackers on the network sending you bad packets.  But they won't
be signed with the RADIUS shared secret, so they will be ignored.

  Alan DeKok.



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