status_check vs src_ipaddr

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Sat Mar 3 09:20:26 CET 2012


Brian Julin wrote:
> It appears that a home server entry configured with src_ipaddr will use that
> source ip address for auth requests, but when directed to do status_check,
> it sends status request packets using some interface address from some
> other config item somewhere (not sure from which one yet.)

  Ah.  That's an easy fix.

> Also the source port on auth requests is usually taken from the OS dynamic
> range (high port numbers), but for some reason these are sourced from port 1647.

  It's the same problem.

> Which is odd because I can't seem to grep "1647" out of the source code.

  It's not there.  The proxy port is usually 1 more than the other
ports... just for simplicity.

> Note the server sending these requests is a tad crusty (2.1.10)

  A fix will go into the next release.

  Alan DeKok.



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