logging unknown clients

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Thu Sep 11 21:19:43 CEST 2008


Greg Woods wrote:
> Is there any way to get the freeradius 2.1 server to log requests coming
> from unknown clients? As far as I can tell, these are just silently
> discarded.

  Yes.  Attackers can send packets much more quickly than the server can
log them.  Logging "unknown client" could quickly overload the server.

  You can edit the code to log more messages.  But do this only if you
don't have any untrusted users on your network.

  Alan DeKok.



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