Listening on proxy address * XXXXXX

[Sezer BAGLAN]

Hi Matthew,

Thank your very much for your help.

Does it make sense to set ipaddr as 127.0.0.1 other than 0.0.0.0 for proxy
situation? Is there any difference from security point view that you may
point out?

Thanks in advance,
Sezer

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 1:13 PM Matthew Newton <mcn at freeradius.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 09:28 +0300, Sezer BAGLAN wrote:
> > Why freeradius server listens such an arbitrary port?
>
> It is the port that proxied requests are sent from, and proxy replies
> received to.
>
> > Is it possible to configure it?
>
> You need to add a listen{} section, outside of a virtual server, e.g.
> something like this at the very top of sites-enabled/default, or in
> proxy.conf:
>
> listen {
>   ipaddr = *
>   port = 1814
>   type = proxy
> }
>
> See the notes in sites-enabled/default in the listen{} section there.
>
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> Matthew
>
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