freeradius2 and juniper router

[gahn]

Thanks Alan:

As a newbie, I need to get back to the basics...:)



--- On Sun, 8/29/10, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:

> From: Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>
> Subject: Re: freeradius2 and juniper router
> To: "FreeRadius users mailing list" <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
> Date: Sunday, August 29, 2010, 12:56 AM
> gahn wrote:
> > I got the freeradius server installed, configured but
> it is not working. Basically it just doesn't respond.
> 
>   Have you tried running the server in debugging mode,
> as suggested in
> the FAQ, README, "man" page, web pages, and daily on this
> list?
> 
>   You've given a lot of information... most of which
> is useless.
> 
> > for file "users":
> >
> > tester     Auth-Type := Local
> >            User-Passowrd
> = "password"
> >           
> Juniper-Local-User-Name = "admin"
> 
>   <sigh>  Please read the documentation and
> the FAQ for how to create a
> "users" file entry.  There are a number of mistakes
> here, including a
> mis-spelled attribute.
> 
> > for "clients.conf":
> > 
> > client  192.168.10.8 {
> >         secret 
>           = easy-test
> ...
> > on juniper router:
> > 
> > radius-server {
> >     192.168.10.10 secret
> "$9$g04ZjHkPTQnik.5TzAt"; ## SECRET-DATA
> 
>   You do realize that those secrets are different,
> right?  And that they
> should be the same?  And that if you ran the server in
> debugging mode,
> it would *tell* you this?
> 
> > somehow juniper router just ignore the calls from the
> freeradius server:
> 
>   No.  The router is sending a packet, and not
> receiving a response.
> 
> > any ideas?
> 
>   You've done many things wrong.  The main one is
> trying to debug the
> server by looking at everything *else* in the network.
> 
>   Why not debug the server by looking at the servers
> behavior?  That's
> what all of the documentation says to do, and it seems
> rather more logical.
> 
>   Alan DeKok.
> 
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