Re: Emerald support of USR Netserver

Michael Miller ( michael@abraxis.com )
Thu, 15 May 1997 11:20:08 -0400

Kurt Schafer wrote:
>
> Speaking from experience running Ascend's version of the RADIUS daemon on a
> FreeBSD box, the Bad Authenticator message is caused by the Netserver not
> sending the secret along with the accounting packets.
>
> Perhaps if you weren't seeing any effect from selecting the check box, it
> was because you needed to shutdown/restart radius ?
>
> I'd be anxious to hear your successes/failures regarding this, I'll be
> looking to add 3 Netserver16's to our Emerald system over the next month.
>

I allready tried recycling Radius by shutting down and restarting it..
unfortunatelly there was no effect. I have gotten the same results with
2 different USR Netservers.

> -Kurt
>
> ----------
> > From: Michael Miller <michael@abraxis.com>
> > To: emerald@emerald.iea.com
> > Subject: Emerald support of USR Netserver
> > Date: Thursday, May 15, 1997 10:55 AM
> >
> > Hello all again,
> >
> > I am still trying to get Radius / Emerald to recognize a USRobotics
> > NETServer/16 I server. I agree the proper setting is "starts at 1"
> > however I seem to have another problem. Radius/Emerald will properly
> > acknowledge the authentication request, however is not acknowledging the
> > accounting request, and as a result no connections to the Netserver are
> > logged or displayed on the online status tab. Running radius in debug
> > mode reveals:
> >
> > LOG: Bad authenticator: from Netserver 2 - ID: xxx
> >
> > This would suggest that the Netserver is not sending the proper secret
> > code for authentication. I have the secret set properly in both emerald
> > admin/radius config/servers and in the USR Netserver. I also have tried
> > leaving "require secret for accounting" both checked and unchecked in
> > the Radius Admin and have seen no changes. Anyone know what is going on
> > here?
> >

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