FreeRadius Frustration

[soulesschild]

Has anyone setup FreeRadius in Ubuntu or CentOS? I've been trying to get them setup on both and have just been repeatedly smashing my head against the wall trying to get it setup. I've gotten pretty close to having it working on Ubuntu while CentOS has just lead no where. Any network gurus have any advice or willing to help me out?

Specifically, I'm following these guides,

http://deployingradius.com/documents/configuration/setup.html

And on the setup part for PAP, I can't get past the testing part.

When I run

radtest bob hello localhost 0 testing123

I don't get anything back in terminal and it just times out. Any ideas?

 

[mattjw916]

Have you verified the radius process has started properly and that you aren't blocking the port(s) with a firewall? Can you manually telnet to the radius port and connect successfully? Is radius actually listening on localhost or is it just listening on the in-band IP address?

These are some things I would check first before diving into the config files more deeply.

 

[booyaa]

Soul,
I haven't gone through the process of setting up FreeRadius but I am in the process of deploying a wireless solution that's using it.

I ended up getting an older laptop and using a Live CD called ZeroShell.

Give it a try if you get tired of setting up a dedicated box to do it.
http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/

 

[nexusalt]

It's been a looooong time since I setup my freeradius box, but I still have these sites bookmarked...I set mine up with a mysql backend, just because it's so much nicer to add/remove/change users and whatnot.

http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-u...ver-with-mysql-and-management-with-daloradius (on ubuntu, just do a "sudo apt-get install freeradius*" and go to step 3 unless you need SSL\TLS support.)
http://www.8021xhelp.com/node/7
http://www.8021xhelp.com/node/6

 

[nexusalt]

Oh, and also, try the following.

radtest bob hello localhost 1812 testing123

1812 should be the default port that freeradius is listening on.