How to forward MAC-authentiation-requests over a FreeRADIUS-proxy to a FreeRADIUS-server?

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Thu Oct 9 08:03:13 CEST 2008


Raphael Brüngel wrote:
> radiusd: #### Opening IP addresses and Ports ####
> listen {
> type = "proxy"
> ipaddr = 192.168.1.80
> port = 1812

  That's... wrong in so many ways.

> You said that the proxy port is 1814 but the authentication port 1812 is
> not used by the proxy, correct?

  How do you expect the proxy to receive packets?

> Is it incorrect to use port 1812 to receive proxy requests when the
> switch sends it to 1812, too?

  Yes.  It's completely wrong.

  Again, less editing of the configuration files means the server is
MORE likely to work.

  Alan DeKok.



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