October 2002
Intermediate to advanced
206 pages
8h 30m
English
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Testing the Initial Setup
Once you have FreeRADIUS running, you
need to test the configuration to make sure it is responding to
requests. FreeRADIUS starts up listening, by default, on the port
specified either in the local /etc/services file
or in the port directive in radiusd.conf. While
RFC 2138 defines the standard RADIUS port to be 1812, historically
RADIUS client equipment has used port 1645. Communicating via two
different ports is obviously troublesome, so many users start the
FreeRADIUS daemon with the -p flag, which
overrides the setting in both the /etc/services
file and anything set in radiusd.conf. To do
this, run the following from the command line:
radius:/etc/raddb # radiusd -p 1645 radiusd: Starting - reading configuration files ... radius:/etc/raddb #
The server is now running; it is listening for and accepting requests on port 1645.
So, what is an easy way to test your configuration to see if it functions properly? It’s easier than you might think, in fact. MasterSoft, Inc. has released a Windows desktop RADIUS server testing tool called NTRadPing, available at http://www.mastersoft-group.com/download. The latest version as of this writing is 1.2, and it’s a freeware tool. Download and install this utility on a Windows machine, and then run it. The initial application window should look much like Figure 5-1.
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Figure 5-1. The NTRadPing 1.2 application window
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