FreeRadius 2.1.12: radclient without coa

Treusch Thorsten ttreusch at cisco.com
Wed May 9 21:56:14 CEST 2012


Hi Alan,
thanks for your reply but as far as i know nobody as edited our version of radclient ?!
It was just a clean install done by one of my colleagues.
And when he installed it the only purpose of freeradius was for authentication.
We didn't even think about using CoA.
When you say "edited", does that mean we might have to modify/add something in the Freeradius
installation and/or config to get coa back to radclient ?

Cheers,
Thorsten

Treusch Thorsten wrote:
> Now we have started to evaluate CoA on FreeRadius for both scenarios:
> a) Receive CoA packets from Node
> b) Send CoA-Requests to node (and analyze CoA-Ack, CoA-Nack
> 
> Reading through several pages i always found "radclient" with the option
> "coa" to send/initiate CoA-Packets.
> And some of my colleagues (development) also use radclient for this purpose.

  That works.

> BUT if i look at our radclient (v2.1.12) the coa option is missing there ?
> 
> Last login: Sat May  5 15:17:27 2012 from dhcp-10-61-100-168.cisco.com
> <http://dhcp-10-61-100-168.cisco.com>
> [freeradius at sca-radius ~]$ radclient 
> Usage: radclient [options] server[:port] <command> [<secret>]
>   <command>    One of auth, acct, status, or disconnect.

  That's wrong.  The version of radclient has listed "coa" there since
May 2006.  The revision control system is quite clear on this.  So...
who edited your version of radclient?

> Is it possible that this coa option was removed with v2.1.12 (or earlier) ?

  No.

> If yes, is there an alternative to send CoA packets from FreeRadius server ?
> I don't want to send CoA packets as a follow up to Access Request
> packet, but want to start it
> from FreeRadius.

  The version of radclient shipped with 2.1.12 has full support for CoA.

  Alan DeKok.

On 05.05.2012, at 18:43, Treusch Thorsten wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> we have FreeRadius 2.1.12 installed in our lab mostly for testing purpose of our nodes.
> 
> Now we have started to evaluate CoA on FreeRadius for both scenarios:
> a) Receive CoA packets from Node
> b) Send CoA-Requests to node (and analyze CoA-Ack, CoA-Nack
> 
> Reading through several pages i always found "radclient" with the option "coa" to send/initiate CoA-Packets.
> And some of my colleagues (development) also use radclient for this purpose.
> 
> BUT if i look at our radclient (v2.1.12) the coa option is missing there ?
> 
> Last login: Sat May  5 15:17:27 2012 from dhcp-10-61-100-168.cisco.com
> [freeradius at sca-radius ~]$ radclient 
> Usage: radclient [options] server[:port] <command> [<secret>]
>   <command>    One of auth, acct, status, or disconnect.
> 
> Is it possible that this coa option was removed with v2.1.12 (or earlier) ?
> 
> If yes, is there an alternative to send CoA packets from FreeRadius server ?
> I don't want to send CoA packets as a follow up to Access Request packet, but want to start it
> from FreeRadius.
> 
> 
> Many thanks for any helpful feedback,
> Thorsten

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