Building a test tool

[Vinit Karandikar]

Not sure how radclient will help, Tim.
Based on my limited exposure, I get the impression that I can use 
radclient to simulate 1 network element (like the PDSN).
I'm trying to simulate 10 different ones simultaneously.

As mentioned in my initial email, I need the tool to simulate the PDSN, 
the Pre-Paid  Server and hosts of other network elements (possibly 10 
such like the Foreign AAA, the Carrier Exchange and so on...)

Am I underestimating what the radclient can do ?

> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 11:34:19 -0700
> From: "Tim Sylvester" <tim.sylvester at networkradius.com>
> Subject: RE: Building a test tool
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> Use the radclient tool. You can create test files that have the attributes
> for the radius packets and feed them to radclient.
>
> NAME
>        radclient - send packets to a RADIUS server, show reply
>
> SYNOPSIS
>        radclient  [-d raddb_directory] [-c count] [-f file] [-i id] [-n
> num_requests_per_second]
>        [-p num_requests_in_parallel] [-r num_retries] [-s] [-S
> shared_secret_file] [-t  timeout]
>        [-qvx] server {acct|auth|status|disconnect|auto} secret
>
> DESCRIPTION
>        radclient  is  a  radius client program. It can send arbitrary radius
> packets to a radius
>        server, then shows the reply. It can be used to test changes you made
> in  the  configura-
>        tion of the radius server, or it can be used to monitor if a radius
> server is up.
>
>        radclient reads radius attribute/value pairs from it standard input,
> or from a file spec-
>        ified on the command line. It then encodes these attribute/value
> pairs using the  dictio-
>        nary, and sends them to the remote server.
>
>        The  User-Password  and  CHAP-Password  attributes are automatically
> encrypted before the
>        packet is sent to the server.
>
> Tim
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: freeradius-users-
>> bounces+tim.sylvester=networkradius.com at lists.freeradius.org
>> [mailto:freeradius-users-
>> bounces+tim.sylvester=networkradius.com at lists.freeradius.org] On Behalf
>> Of Vinit Karandikar
>> Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 11:25 AM
>> To: freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org
>> Subject: Building a test tool
>>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> I'm new to Free Radius and would like to use it to build a test tool
>> for
>> testing a AAA server.
>>
>> I'd like the test tool to simulate (say) 10 network elements that talk
>> to a AAA server
>> - using threads on different ports that are controlled by the main
>> thread.
>>
>> Some of these will initiate traffic to the AAA server (like the one
>> simulating the PDSN).
>> Others will receive traffic and talk back to the AAA server (like the
>> one simulating the Pre-paid Server).
>>
>> I'm sure I'm not going to find something like this in the wild. So I'm
>> planning to write code to do the above.
>>
>> I was wondering if there are bits of code that I can shamelessly pilfer
>> from or use as a starting point.
>>
>> Any tips are plenty welcome...
>>
>> Thanks in advance to all,
>> -Vinit
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