ihi, accoridng to your output, it looks like localhost is mapping to ::1
which is the local box IPv6 address (like 127.0.0.1 is in IPv4 world) by default, FreeRADIUS wont be listing to IPv6 interface...if you configure it so that it is then this will work - otherwise change you command to eg radtest rsa hello 127.0.0.1 1812 testing123 or change your hosts file so that localhost maps to 127.0.0.1 first! alan - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html