Radius Testing Tool

Ben Brown bbrown at plus.net
Fri Aug 19 17:20:02 CEST 2011


On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 01:35:32PM +0100, Alan DeKok wrote:
>   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...

I did initially look at using the radiusclient-ng library, but I found
the dictionary parsing to be a bit too fragile. It would bomb out with
very little provocation.

>   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.

I wasn't aware of radsniff, I'll take a look at the code some time to
see if I can integrate it. I quite like not needing any other libraries
though, and it's such a small program really.

Ben

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