Hello Traiano -

For testing purposes I would suggest using a Client clause in the configuration 
file so you know exactly what is happening.

For your ClientListSQL I'm not sure about using boolean for the field - I would 
suggest text instead.

regards

Hugh



On 19 May 2012, at 19:47, Traiano Welcome wrote:

> Hi Hugh
> 
> Thanks for your response!
> 
> I don't use the Client clause (I'm using the  Handler clause to match 
> NAS-Identifiers), but I see one can use this in the ClientListSQL clause as 
> I've done below: 
> 
> ---
> <ClientListSQL>
>        DBSource        dbi:Pg:dbname=<hidden>;host=localhost
>        DBUsername      <redacted>
>        DBAuth          <obscured>
>        GetClientQuery  select nas_ip,secret,ignoreacctsignature,dupinterval 
> from naslist
> </ClientListSQL>
> ---
> 
> ... with a corresponding modification from my "naslist" table as follows:
> 
> ---
>            Table "public.naslist"
> 
>       Column        |  Type   |  Modifiers   
> ---------------------+---------+--------------
> nas_ip              | inet    | not null
> secret              | text    | not null
> ignoreacctsignature | boolean | default true
> dupinterval         | integer | default 2
> hostname            | text    | 
> description         | text    | 
> ---
> 
> Example:
> 
> --
>     nas_ip     |  secret   | ignoreacctsignature | dupinterval 
> ----------------+-----------+---------------------+-------------
> loa.dba.lan.cer   | <redacted>  | t                   |           2
> --
> 
> 
> However I'm still seeing the "WARNING: Bad authenticator in request from ..." 
> messages after restarting radius several times. How can  I debug this further 
> ?
> 
> I see the "IgnoreAcctSignature" is not supported in the Handler statement.
> 
> Traiano
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Hugh Irvine [[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 6:45 AM
> To: Traiano Welcome
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [RADIATOR] (no subject)
> 
> Hello Traiano -
> 
> You can try setting "IgnoreAcctSignature" in the client clause in the Centos 
> Radiator configuration.
> 
> See section 5.7.3 in the Radiator 4.9 reference manual ("doc/ref.pdf").
> 
> regards
> 
> Hugh
> 
> 
> On 19 May 2012, at 10:15, Traiano Welcome wrote:
> 
>> Hi List
>> 
>> I have a a 'cluster' of 5 Radiator radius servers behind a FreeBSD server 
>> running Radiator in load balancing configuration. The radius servers behind 
>> the load balancer do authentication and accounting, 4 of them are freebsd 
>> running in vmware  VMs and the fifth is a CentOS physical host. While I see 
>> the FreeBSD radius auth/acct servers are handling requests correctly, 
>> logging accounting to a postgresql database, I am seeing all the accounting 
>> requests proxied via the load-balancer to the CentOS host fail with the 
>> following error in the logs:
>> 
>> ---
>> Sat May 19 00:50:51 2012: WARNING: Bad authenticator in request from 
>> lo.ad.bal.ancer (na.s.100.20)
>> Sat May 19 00:50:51 2012: WARNING: Bad authenticator in request from 
>> lo.ad.bal.ancer (na.s.100.20)
>> Sat May 19 00:50:51 2012: WARNING: Bad authenticator in request from 
>> lo.ad.bal.ancer (na.s.0.100)
>> Sat May 19 00:50:52 2012: WARNING: Bad authenticator in request from 
>> lo.ad.bal.ancer (na.s.0.100)
>> ---
>> 
>> No accounting packets are being logged to the postgresql database on the 
>> CentOS host, as a consequence (?)
>> 
>> Normally I would expect this to be due to a mismatch in secrets between the 
>> NAS (here being the Radiator load balancer?) and the auth'ing/accounting 
>> radiator server, however the secret configured on  the freebsd server is 
>> identical to that on the CentOS host and the radiator load balancer, and the 
>> FreeBSD radius server is auth'ing and accounting successfully.
>> 
>> Running tcpdump on each system, I can see the following:
>> 
>> - The FreeBSD load-balancer is sending accounting requests to the CentOS 
>> load balancer, but is seeing no responses in return
>> - The CentOS auth/acct server is seeing requests from the load-balancer is 
>> not sending accounting response packets back to the load balancer
>> - The FreeBSD auth/acct server is happily receiving accounting requests and 
>> sending responses from the load-balancer
>> 
>> So free flow of radius packets between the load-balancer and the CentOS 
>> radiator server is unlikely to be the  issues ... After, all, no responses 
>> are being sent out by the CentOS host in the first place.
>> 
>> The details of the load balancer and the two radius accounting/auth servers 
>> behind it are as follows:
>> 
>> 1) FreeBSD Load Balancer server (Radiator Configured as a load balancer)
>> 
>> - FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p6 #0
>> - PERL (v5.12.4) built for amd64-freebsd
>> - p5-Digest-MD5-2.51
>> 
>> 2) FreeBSD Radiator server handling RADIUS packets from the Load Balancer 
>> (Radiator configured to auth from and account to a local postgresql database)
>> 
>> - FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p4 #2
>> - PERL (v5.12.4) built for amd64-freebsd-thread-multi
>> - postgres (PostgreSQL) 8.4.10
>> - p5-Digest-MD5-2.51
>> 
>> 3) CentOS Radiator Server handling RADIUS packets from the Load Balancer 
>> (Radiator configured to auth from and account to a local postgresql database)
>> 
>> - CentOS release 6.2 (Final), 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP
>> - v5.10.1 (*) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi
>> -  (PostgreSQL) 8.4.10
>> - Digest::MD5  (2.51)
>> - perl-Net-SSLeay-1.35-9.el6.x86_64
>> - perl-Digest-HMAC-1.01-22.el6.noarch
>> - perl-DBI-1.609-4.el6.x86_64
>> - perl-DBD-Pg-2.15.1-3.el6.x86_64
>> 
>> Attached are the radiator configurations  for each of the above servers:
>> 
>> 1. My FreeBSD Load balancer's Radiator configuration:
>> 2. The Radiator configuration on a working freebsd server:
>> 3. The Radiator configuration on the CentOS server:
>> 
>> I've tried the following tests to confirm if this isn't a software/library 
>> issue:
>> 
>> - reinstalled postgresql, Radiator and the associated PERL libraries a 
>> number of times, testing different combinations of package versions - no luck
>> - tried CPAN perl libraries instead of the centos yum perl modules
>> - installed radiator from source and using the rpm package
>> - tried radiator 4.8 and 4.9
>> - Postgresl 8.4 and 9.2 from source and rpm
>> - Confirmed database connectivity between Radiator and Postgresql
>> - Upping the radiator Trace level to 5 doesn't reveal any actual details of 
>> possible cause of failure other than a dump of the radius accounting-request 
>> packet (that I can recognise anyway :p)
>> 
>> I'd be grateful if someone could point out a likely cause of the CentOS 
>> Radiator servers non-response to accounting-requests, or suggest some 
>> additional detailed debugging techniques I could use?
>> 
>> Let me know if I should send some packet traces in addition to the above!
>> 
>> Many Thanks in advance!
>> Traiano
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> 
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> 
> Hugh Irvine
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anywhere. SQL, proxy, DBM, files, LDAP, NIS+, password, NT, Emerald, 
Platypus, Freeside, TACACS+, PAM, external, Active Directory, EAP, TLS, 
TTLS, PEAP, TNC, WiMAX, RSA, Vasco, Yubikey, MOTP, HOTP, TOTP,
DIAMETER etc. 
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