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FreeRadius log rotation

Once I installed FreeRadius from the source code, so I needed to make a log rotation script, since the log file sometimes grew to large sizes, for example, during technical work or development, a lot of debugging information could be written, during standard work, almost no logs were written.

How to configure Radius on Juniper

For example, I will configure the Radius on the Juniper MX204.

FreeRadius. error solution rlm_sql_mysql: Couldn’t connect to MySQL server

Once I installed FreeRadius 3.0.23, by the way I described the process in the article: ABillS. Installing Freeradius, and optimized some parameters of the MySQL server, after which FreeRadius stopped starting and I saw errors in the logs:

ABillS. Installing Freeradius

I will give an example of updating or installing Freeradius 3.0.23 from the source codes.
ABillS and Freeradius will work for me in the same operating system Ubuntu Server 18.04.

Installing and configuring daloRadius

daloRadius – web interface for FreeRadius.

Installing and configuring FreeRADIUS

Installation on Ubuntu:

IPTables rules for FreeRADIUS

Suppose INPUT is the default DROP, I’ll give examples of IPTables rules for FreeRADIUS:

ABillS + FreeRADIUS + Accel-PPP only issue one DNS

Once after installation ABillS + FreeRADIUS2 + Accel-PPP (ipoe) noticed that for DHCP clients receive only one DNS server.
Access-Accept from FreeRADIUS was this:

Sending Access-Accept of id 1 to 127.0.0.1 port 57481
        Session-Timeout = 604800
        PPPD-Downstream-Speed-Limit = 51200
        Framed-IP-Netmask += 255.255.255.0
        Framed-IP-Netmask += 255.255.255.0
        Acct-Interim-Interval = 600
        DHCP-Domain-Name-Server += 8.8.8.8
        DHCP-Domain-Name-Server += 8.8.4.4
        PPPD-Upstream-Speed-Limit = 51200
        Framed-IP-Address = 172.20.20.20
Finished request 40.

Configuring FreeRADIUS DHCP for ABillS

Suppose you installed FreeRADIUS 2 as written in this article – Installation and configuration of the ABillS billing system
Now copy the dhcp.conf file into the FreeRADIUS configuration:

sudo cp /usr/abills/misc/freeradius/v2/dhcp.conf /usr/local/freeradius/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/

Continue reading “Configuring FreeRADIUS DHCP for ABillS”

How to fix error Failed binding to authentication address * port 1812: Address already in use freeradius

I once ran FreeRADIUS in debug mode:

sudo radiusd -X

And I noticed the following error:

Failed binding to authentication address * port 1812: Address already in use freeradius
/usr/local/freeradius/etc/raddb/radiusd.conf[84]: Error binding to port for 0.0.0.0 port 1812

The error indicates that the address is already in use, so you need to stop the running FreeRADIUS process, look for it and see what’s running on the ports:

sudo ps ax | grep radius
sudo netstat -tulpn | grep :1812
sudo netstat -tulpn | grep :1813
sudo netstat -tulpn | grep :67

In my case, /usr/sbin/radiusd was already started, it can be terminated by PID:

sudo kill -9 PID

Or so:

sudo /etc/init.d/radiusd status
sudo /etc/init.d/radiusd stop
sudo /etc/init.d/freeradius stop