this was mentioned so I was hoping uncomment both in /etc/services would do it "some reasons you don't want radius to listen on two ports" which I would be happy to do.
thanks Troy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Artur Hecker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 11:46 PM Subject: Re: [Oz-ISP] Portmaster 2E > hello Troy! > > see comments inline, please > > > Troy Davis wrote: > > > > Are you saying if I uncommented both udp addresses in /etc/services then > > radius is able to listen on both ports, I would have thought I would have > > huh? what makes you think that? i've never ever mentioned this > particular file. what i was saying is, that you could copy the data from > one udp-socket (i.e. ip+port) to another, namely with the help of the > mentioned simple program. > > you said that your device (portmaster 2E) supposes the radius-server to > be on port x which can't be reconfigured. if i understand well, your > radius server runs at port y (with x != y). i proposed to you - as one > possible solution - to copy the packets sent by the portmaster to the > port x to the port y and vice versa. the ip can certainly be configured > in this portmaster device, and the program which will copy the packets > can be started wherever you want. > > basically it would work e.g. like this: > > src:srcport proxy:srcport > proxy:x (fix!) radius:y > portmaster ---------------------> proxy ------------------------> > radius-server > > where proxy is the address of the machine which proxy runs at. it _can_ > be the radius-server itself. the proxy will of course do the vice versa > in the opposite direction. > > the advantage of this setup is that you don't need to touch your running > radius server nor to install another one. if you want to re-send the > accounting packets you would start two instances of qudproxy, the second > one working on x+1, y+1 ports. > > there is NO setup at all for the qudproxy program, you just have to > start it, possibly in a while ( true; ) loop to avoid problems. > > regards, > > > artur > > > > had to have 2 radius's running. > > More information would be nice. > > Thanks Troy > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Artur Hecker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 7:15 PM > > Subject: Re: [Oz-ISP] Portmaster 2E > > > > > hmmm, > > > > > > if it is important to you to keep your current configuration and for > > > some reasons you don't want radius to listen on two ports, you could > > > simply use a udp-proxy, i.e. a small simple programm which will copy > > > ongoing packets from one udp-socket to another and vice versa... just > > > search the net for "qudproxy" (those were the days ;-)) or ask me... you > > > could start it on the same machine or on every intermediate you want. > > > > > > greetings > > > > > > art > > > > > -- > Artur Hecker Groupe Acc�s et Mobilit� > hecker[at]enst.fr D�partement Informatique et R�seaux > +33 1 45 81 7507 46, rue Barrault 75634 Paris cedex 13 > http://www.infres.enst.fr ENST Paris > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
