Livingston and Merit radiusd's both won't work

Brian C Hill (bchill@ucdavis.edu)
Thu, 10 Oct 1996 13:57:50 -0700 (PDT)

I installed the livingston radiusd per the instructions
(including /etc/services entries). I turned on -x debugging and used
snoop. I can see the requests coming to the radiusd and the radiusd
answering, but both our portmaster and our USR NETServer just keep
sending the requests.

The portmaster (version):
Livingston Enterprises PortMaster Version 3.0.3

The netserver (version):
U.S. Robotics
Total Control (tm) NETServer Card V.34 version 3.1.7
Build date: Jan 5 1996
Build time: 10:58:50

Licensed for 60 ports.

I did a "set secret" on the pm and put that in the clients file
on the radiusd host. I did a "set authentic" on the pm pointing to the
radius host. I also didn't even change the users file. I just tried to
test one of local entries. This is a sample of the -x output.

radrecv: Request from host cf218446 code=1, id=2, length=64
User-Name = "rhw"
Password = "$\257OT\223\335J\014\336\022\325\237\324\346@\321"
Client-Id = 207.33.132.70
Client-Port-Id = 99
User-Service-Type = Outbound-User
Sending Ack of id 2 to cf218446 (pm-1.nsnet.net)
User-Service-Type = Login-User
Login-Host = 207.33.132.130
Login-Service = PortMaster
radrecv: Request from host cf218446 code=1, id=2, length=64
User-Name = "rhw"
Password = "$\257OT\223\335J\014\336\022\325\237\324\346@\321"
Client-Id = 207.33.132.70
Client-Port-Id = 99
User-Service-Type = Outbound-User

I also have the addresses configured correctly (forward and
reverse) for both systems in our DNS data. No other network traffic
to/from the two terminal severs (the PM and the USR) is affected. The
only other thing that I can think of is that it may be related to the
CIDR addresses that we're using, but it is not obvius to me how this
might factor in.

Since 2 terminal servers didn't work and 2 different radiusd's
didn't work, I am assuming that I am doing something wrong, but I have
run out of ideas. Does anyone have any clues?

Brian