RE: Problems with upgrade!

webmaster ( (no email) )
Tue, 23 Jun 1998 00:21:58 -0400

When I run RadiusNT in debug mode (service stopped), I get the following
errors at the DOS Prompt:

0) EncryptPasswords: 0
1) IgnoreCase: 0
2) AuthPort: 1645
3) ReqAcctAuth: 0
4) AcctPort: 1646
5) Mode: 0
6) Options: 0
7) Debug: 0
8) ODBCDatasource: Radius
9) DataDirectory: c:\radius
10) AcctDirectory: c:\radius\accounting
11) UsersFile: users
12) Username:
13) Password:
14) CompanyName:
15) License:
16) TrimName: 0
17) AllowMalformed: 0
18) Proxy: 0
19) LogFile:
20) AcctLogFile:
21) AcctODBCDatasource:
22) AcctUsername:
23) AcctPassword:
24) IPAddress: ###.###.###.##

Param: Debug Level: 15
Initializing Winsock...
Client:###.###.###.##:###.###.###.##:????????:

Loading users...
User:ace
User:?????
User:?????
User:?????
User:?????
User:?????
User:?????
User:?????
User:?????
User:?????
User:?????
User:?????
User:?????
User:?????
User:?????
User:?????
User:?????
User:?????
User:?????
User:?????
User:?????
User:?????
User:abcd
24 users loaded!

RadiusNT Enterprise Initialized...

radrecv: Request from host cd98a421 code=1, id=240, length=105
User-Name = "abcd"
Challenge-Response = "\001\360V+\306S/y\2423[\237u\315C+E"
NAS-IP-Address = ###.###.###.##
NAS-Port = 20102
NAS-Port-Type = Async
Request from ###.###.###.## - Malformed Packet

Resp Time: 761 Auth: 0/0 -> 0 Acct: 0/0/0 -> 0
radrecv: Request from host cd98a421 code=4, id=127, length=149
NAS-IP-Address = ###.###.###.##
NAS-Port = 20102
NAS-Port-Type = Async
Acct-Status-Type = Stop
Acct-Delay-Time = 0
Acct-Session-Id = "266772490"
Ascend-Disconnect-Cause = 185
Ascend-Connect-Progress = 65
Received unknown attribute 255
Ascend-Data-Rate = 28800
Ascend-PreSession-Time = 30
Ascend-Pre-Input-Octets = 326
Ascend-Pre-Output-Octets = 197
Ascend-Pre-Input-Packets = 6
Ascend-Pre-Output-Packets = 7
Received unknown attribute 120
Received unknown attribute 121
Caller-Id = "###########"
NAS-Port-DNIS = "#########"
Sending Accounting Ack of id 127 to cd98a421 (205.152.164.33)

Resp Time: 481 Auth: 0/0 -> 0 Acct: 1/0/0 -> 1
radrecv: Request from host cd98a421 code=1, id=241, length=104
User-Name = "ace"
Challenge-Response = "\001r\277D|k\355\245W\244\355P6\317\322\365\244"
NAS-IP-Address = ###.###.###.##
NAS-Port = 20102
NAS-Port-Type = Async
Request from ###.###.###.## - Malformed Packet

Resp Time: 901 Auth: 0/0 -> 0 Acct: 1/0/0 -> 1
radrecv: Request from host cd98a421 code=1, id=241, length=104
User-Name = "ace"
Challenge-Response = "\001r\277D|k\355\245W\244\355P6\317\322\365\244"
NAS-IP-Address = ###.###.###.##
NAS-Port = 20102
NAS-Port-Type = Async
Request from ###.###.###.## - Malformed Packet

Resp Time: 932 Auth: 0/0 -> 0 Acct: 1/0/0 -> 1
radrecv: Request from host cd98a421 code=4, id=128, length=149
NAS-IP-Address = ###.###.###.##
NAS-Port = 20102
NAS-Port-Type = Async
Acct-Status-Type = Stop
Acct-Delay-Time = 0
Acct-Session-Id = "266772491"
Ascend-Disconnect-Cause = 185
Ascend-Connect-Progress = 65
Received unknown attribute 255
Ascend-Data-Rate = 28800
Ascend-PreSession-Time = 32
Ascend-Pre-Input-Octets = 321
Ascend-Pre-Output-Octets = 197
Ascend-Pre-Input-Packets = 9
Ascend-Pre-Output-Packets = 7
Received unknown attribute 120
Received unknown attribute 121
Caller-Id = "########"
NAS-Port-DNIS = "########"
Sending Accounting Ack of id 128 to cd98a421 (###.###.###.##)

Resp Time: 2403 Auth: 0/0 -> 0 Acct: 2/0/0 -> 2

The #'s and ?'s added manually : )

This is the message I receive from the RadiusNT server from accounting via
the logfile with the service stopped using radius -x15:

C:\radius>Mon Jun 22 22:45:36 1998:
RadiusNT Enterprise Initialized...
Mon Jun 22 23:03:22 1998:
RadiusNT Enterprise Initialized...
Mon Jun 22 23:06:58 1998: Request from ###.###.###.## - Malformed Packet
Mon Jun 22 23:07:08 1998: Request from ###.###.###.## - Malformed Packet
Mon Jun 22 23:07:18 1998: Request from ###.###.###.## - Malformed Packet
Mon Jun 22 23:07:28 1998: Request from ###.###.###.## - Malformed Packet
Mon Jun 22 23:39:23 1998:
RadiusNT Enterprise Initialized...
Mon Jun 22 23:43:58 1998: Request from ###.###.###.## - Malformed Packet
Mon Jun 22 23:44:08 1998: Request from ###.###.###.## - Malformed Packet
Mon Jun 22 23:46:38 1998:
RadiusNT Enterprise Initialized...Mon Jun 22 23:06:58 1998: Request from
###.###.###.## - Malformed Packet

Here are some excerpts from the users file:
ace Password = "????????????"
User-Service = Framed-User,
Framed-Protocol = PPP,
Framed-Address = 0.0.0.0

abcd Password = "?????????????"
User-Service = Framed-User,
Framed-Protocol = PPP,
Framed-Address = 0.0.0.0

These same settings worked without a hitch in v2.2. Our modem racks are
using V.90 software, could that be causing the Malformed Packet entry? For
the DOS Prompt data, there was no logfile entry. This was pasted directly
out of the dos screen! The logfile was with logfile declared!

Thanks : )

> -----Original Message-----
> From: radiusnt-request@iea-software.com
> [mailto:radiusnt-request@iea-software.com]On Behalf Of Dale E. Reed Jr.
> Sent: Sunday, June 21, 1998 2:56 AM
> To: radiusnt@iea-software.com
> Subject: Re: Problems with upgrade!
>
>
> webmaster wrote:
> >
> > I have upgraded RadiusNT from v2.2 to 2.5. What is the user
> limit for this
> > version if unregistered and running in text mode? I have read
> in you online
> > documentation that the ODBC mode allows 100 logins. What happens after
> > that?
>
> You can trial RadiusNT in text mode with up to 100 users or ODBC mode
> for up to 100 authentications. You can send a reuqest to sales for a
> temp key if you need to more than that.
>
> > The system has started acting erratically, for example:
> >
> > We had a several users who couldn't log on. We tried several
> things in an
> > attempt to get one user logged on. This included retyping his
> entry to make
> > sure the spacing and tabs were in order, no success. Adding a
> sample user,
> > no success. We then cut and pasted the one user at the top of
> the list, and
> > he was accepted. I went into the debug mode and noticed an
> error for one of
> > the entries above this user. I have since then corrected this.
> The server
> > though still will not authenticate users. We have since then
> moved the user
> > list to the MAX's internal user and password list. Is the unregistered
> > software situation the problem, or has the upgrade changed
> features that I
> > am not use to?
>
> If RadiusNT reads an error in the users file, it stops reading the users
> file. Run RadiusNT in -x15 debug mode and it will show the users being
> read from the users file, and also show if there were any errors
> (and which
> user it has a problem with).
>
> > Also, I know to use debug, you must stop the service. Okay,
> after running
> > the debug, the last line reads that the Radius Enterprise
> initialized... Is
> > this OK instead of "waiting for requests"? Is CTRL C the
> escape from this
> > mode? If so, then can you just restart the RadiusNT service?
>
> Remove the logfile entry. RadiusNT 2.5 logs to the logfile rather than
> the screen if you have a logfile defined.
>
> --
> Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea-software.com)
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