Radius Testing Tool

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Fri Aug 19 14:35:32 CEST 2011


Ben Brown wrote:
> I quickly found this to be very tedious and time consuming, so I started
> looking for a program that would read in the pcap file I'd made with
> tcpdump, fire the packets at the test server and compare the packet it
> got back with the response packets in the capture. After some googling I
> couldn't find anything, so I decided to write one.

  Sounds good.

> Now I am a developer, but an Engineer, so my C might not be the best,
> however I've found this very useful and thought other people might also
> find it useful. It's simple to use and the output is fairly easy to
> interpret.

  OK... my main surprise is that you've re-written a RADIUS
encoder/decoder, and a dictioanry file parser.  All of that code already
exists...

  The "radsniff" program distributed with FreeRADIUS reads PCAP files.
It uses the FreeRADIUS library to read the dictionaries, and the library
can send/receive packets.

  It may have been less work to glue some "send/receive" logic into
radsniff.

  Still, the tool looks useful.

  Alan DeKok.



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