Originate COA home_server

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Wed Sep 22 08:04:14 CEST 2010


Johan Meiring wrote:
> I've configured originate COA using the originate-coa as an example.
> 
> My (relevant/edited for privacy) configuration looks like this:
...
> This works perfectly.
> 
> The home_server_pool seems unnecesary though, but if I leave it out,
> freeradius -X complains that the home_server does not exist.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> /etc/freeradius/sites-enabled/my-config[1]: No such home_server or
> home_server_pool "my-coa"
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------

  Unfortunately, yes.

> It almost seems that the home_server_pool is neccesary to "instantiate"
> the home_server.

  Yes.

> Reading proxy.conf and the originate-coa example, it seems that a
> home_server_pool is only neccesary if you want to actually
> fail-over/round-robin, etc....
> 
> I'm sure I can leave the config as is, as the home_server_pool is never
> actually referenced.
> 
> Am I completely confused?

  Nope.  The home servers are bootstrapped off of the pools.

  It should be fixed for 2.1.10.  For now, define an intermediate pool.

  Alan DeKok.



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