Re: radius

Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@comtch.iea.com)
Tue, 24 Dec 1996 09:29:30 -0800 (PST)

On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, Scott Hood wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to work will a program that will detect if radius on a machine
> is alive. On connecting to a radius port what response should be expected,
> and what would you send to dissconnect.

Unfortunately Radius is connectionless (UDP) so it doesn't
work that way. We have a Radius client that runs on WindowsNT
which sends an auth every few minutes to the Radius server. If
it doesn't get a response, it checks the status of the daemon and
will restart it. Currentlly I am not aware of any other monitoring
tool that can send an auth request to a RADIUS server.

Dale