Peter Nixon wrote: > I see no particular reason why you should not allow a SQL query on a Status > packet. We could have a separate sql query just for Status requests which > does something like "select version()", "select now()" or "select 1". I > think LDAP has something similar as well...
Yes, but that adds server complexity, etc. > On the other hand testing MySQL from another script is not a huge pain... Yup. If you want to know if an SQL server is up, there are existing tools to test that. Personally, I would test: a) RADIUS via Status-Server b) SQL via sql client c) "test" user via Access-Request If you just do (c), you have no idea if the problem is the RADIUS server or the SQL server. Not that it matters to a NAS, of course, but it matters to an administrator. Alan DeKok. -- http://deployingradius.com - The web site of the book http://deployingradius.com/blog/ - The blog - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
