circled part a must?

[Alan DeKok]

On Jun 30, 2025, at 9:36 AM, Christoph Egger via Freeradius-Users <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org> wrote:
> I configured freeradius 3.2.7. Authentication works for wired clients but not for wireless clients.

  See wiki.freeradius.org/list-help <http://wiki.freeradius.org/list-help>

  I post this link almost every day.  It would be enormously useful if people read it, and followed the documentation.

> I have contacted TP-Link for support.
> After some ping pong with them they finally managed to reproduce the issue.
> They tried various freeradius versions and report successful authentication with freeradius version 3.0.13.
> 
> I tried various versions without success.
> Oldest version I could try is 3.0.16.

 "stuff went wrong, but sometimes stuff went right"

  How are we supposed to help you when the message includes only the vaguest possible description of the problem?

  There are tools available to let you know more about what's going wrong.  There's tons of documentation.  I'm pretty sure that the documentation and debug output is complete enough for 99% of the situations that people run into.

  The bulk of questions on the list are now issues that can be resolved by reading the documentation.

> They would like to know if the circled part shown in the attached screenshot is a must.

  Why post a screen shot of text?  Does the list not accept messages with text in them?

  And I'm not going to answer the question.  It is looking at the wrong thing, and is a complete waste of time.  Don't spend time worrying about complex protocol magic.  Do read the documentation and the debug output.

  Honestly, I'm getting close to banning people who post messages that contain no content.  Questions like "I did stuff and it didn't work.  What should I do?" are anti-social and unproductive.

  Read the docs.

  Alan DeKok.