Hi,

To add to Fabrice comment, FR is NOT listening on the localhost 
interface except the server-status site (port 18120 that Fabrice did 
point out).  You have to use the management IP you defined in your 
pf.conf (management interface) to reach the server.

Thanks.

On 2012-09-26 1:46 PM, Durand Fabrice wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> if you want to test radius, you have to test on the port 18120
>
> radtest dd9999 Abcd1234 localhost:18120 12 testing123
>
> And to debug, you can kill the radius process and launch:
> /usr/sbin/radiusd -d /usr/local/pf/raddb/ -X
>
> Regards
> Le 2012-09-26 13:40, Thomas Tsai a écrit :
>>
>> I’ve always had an issue getting the freeradius module to work
>> correctly with packetfence v3.5 with at least 2 iterations of
>> rebuilding packetfence.   (once under centos 5, and now centos 6)
>>
>> I decided to dust off the covers yesterday to do some serious
>> troubleshooting by looking at logs.
>>
>> 1)I read the admin guide section for radius.  Followed those steps for
>> local authentication – nothing fancy with AD auth yet.  Lets get the
>> barebones working.
>>
>> 2)I looked for the radius logs under the following spots:
>>
>> a./var/log/radius/radius.log
>>
>> b./usr/local/pf/logs/radius.log
>>
>> Did a tail on both logs just in case, though all the threads online
>> suggest the correct log to look at is under /var/log. Couldn’t find
>> any logs that matched my attempts to perform “radtest”.  Radtest
>> results as follows:
>>
>> [server]# radtest username password localhost 12 key
>>
>> […]
>>
>> radclient: no response from server for ID 34 socket 3
>>
>> So.. doesn’t look like the radius server is listening.  I did what the
>> packetfence website suggested.  Radiusd –X and I get the following
>> results:
>>
>> Failed binding to authentication address * port 1812 as server
>> packetfence: Address already in use
>>
>> /etc/raddb/radiusd.conf[27]: Error binding to port for 0.0.0.0 port 1812
>>
>> So…something is occupying this port already.  Let’s do a netstat to
>> confirm…
>>
>> [server]# netstat -an | grep 1812
>>
>> udp 0      0 127.0.0.1:18120             0.0.0.0:*
>>
>> udp 0      0 10.10.10.254:1812           0.0.0.0:*
>>
>> Yes.  Something is listening.
>>
>> If I stop the packetfence service,  I am then able to run radiusd –X
>> and I am able to perform a radtest with success.
>>
>> I want to troubleshoot this and get to the bottom of my issue because
>> I want to use PF for wireless auth with a WLC!  But this is a major
>> hurdle…
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
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