Multiple clients on same IP address

[Fahd Kasri]

That's what I thought. I tried the first solution (wanting to avoid the two
others), and apparently the configuration works. Just wanted to know if
there could be any problems with two or more clients using the exact some
configuration. Thanks for the info.

2009/12/21 Alexander Clouter <alex at digriz.org.uk>

> Fahd Kasri <fahd.kasri at weblib.eu> wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to have multiple Radius clients behind a router connect to
> a
> > distant Freeradius server (these clients would therefore have the same IP
> > address and be the same client in clients.conf)?
> > I've this and apparently it works, but could there be any problems in the
> > long run?
> >
> They would either:
>  * need to use the same shared secret
>  * connect to different IP's provisioned by FreeRADIUS (the server is
>        bind()'ed to more than one address)
>  * send traffic to different port numbers being listened to by
>        FreeRADIUS (listens on ports other than the 'official' ones)
>
> You can use a combination of the above (if you are crazy), but you will
> need to use at lease *one*.  The alternative is to kill NAT...for it is
> evil[1].
>
> Cheers
>
> [1] if the network is 'trusted' then use an IPIP/GRE tunnel to get the
>        traffic to the RADIUS server
>
> --
> Alexander Clouter
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Fahd Kasri
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Weblib
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