NT Radius 2.0 crash

Gabriel Emerson (geme@baraboo.com)
Tue, 26 Aug 1997 11:29:26 -0500

I just moved recently from Dale Reed's RADIUSNT to Livingston's RADIUS 2.0.
I have had several problems with it, and was wondering if anyone had any
suggestions.

1) Stop/Restart with NET START and NET STOP. I was able to do cycle
RADIUSNT by issuing stop and start, to automate reload of the userlist
(shared across machines).

2) Crashes. I get a lot of the "The instruction at "0x00da667d"
referenced memory at "0x00000028". The memory could not be "read". Of
course, this really bites if I'm not around :(

3) Doesn't authenticate anyone from the text file, only through the
user-cache, which has the undesired effect of logging everything to that
blasted mdb file. If I set it to authenticate without User-Cache, it loads
the USERS file, but continually tells me that the incoming account names
don't match any in the file.

4) Other crashes in radsvc.exe. I'll repost next time I get one of these.

5) For some reason, I could only put a directory path in for my RADIUS
files if I used BROWSE. Now even that won't work, so I can't change the
directory path at all. Clicking on browse does nothing, and typing in the
path results in the path being reset back to what it was whether I click
Apply or Ok.

6) Feature? Fills up my application log with every single thing it does.
How do I turn that off?

Judging from the lack of complaints on the list about this since I
joined, I am supposing that this is all a problem on my machine. I read
through the RADIUS manual, and found nothing to help. I wonder if my
installation procedure is suspect.
This is running like beta software on my machines (NT 4.0, 32 megs RAM,
Pentium 166)

I installed Livingston Radius. RADIUSNT was still set up as a service
called RADIUS. The SERVICES file contains the UDP ports for RADIUS as
well.

I uninstalled the old RADIUS service by using Livingston's REMOVE SERVICE
menu option. I then did INSTALL SERVICE, which ought to have replaced
RADIUS, and appears to have. I changed all references to User-Service to
Service-Type in my USERS file just in case.

Thanks,
Gabriel Emerson
<geme@baraboo.com>