Config Examples

[Alex Bahoor]

It seems that we agree on the concept. However, netstat -a on the server
shows *:* for the port numbers of RADIUS, when it's dynamically assigned.
What is that mean?

Alex

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Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 11:15 AM
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Subject: RE: Config Examples

On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Alex Bahoor wrote:

> They do? Networking would not work, when the ports would be dynamic. 
> Inetd would not be functional or useful...etc.

"Dynamic" as in you can change them from the default, in case something 
else is already using the port, or you want to move it for other reasons 
(running a second server, "security", testing, etc.).

[In much the same way that people get confused by what the "Dynamic" in 
"Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol" means -- not that the address is 
necessarily different each time, but that the client dynamically 
configures its address based on the information sent by the server.]


>From radiusd.conf, in the block above the 'port = 0' line:

#  The port is defined here to be 0 so that the server will pick up
#  the machine's local configuration for the radius port, as defined
#  in /etc/services.

   - Bob


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