Client Configuration

All programs from the client package share the same configuration file: `raddb/client.conf'. The file uses simple line-oriented syntax. Empty lines are ignored, the `#' introduces an end-of-line comment.

The source IP address is introduced with source_ip statement. Its syntax is:

    source_ip ip-addr

where ip-addr must be the IP address in "dotted-quad" notation.

The radius server where to send the requests to is introduced with server statement:

    server name ip-addr secret auth-port acct-port

Its parts are:

name

The server name. It is reserved for further use.

ip-addr

The server IP address.

secret

The shared secret to be used when sending requests to this server

auth-port

Authentication port number.

acct-port

Accounting port number.

If several server statement are present, they are tried in turn until any of them replies to the request.

The amount of time a client program waits for the reply from a server is configured using timeout statement:

    timepout number

If the program does not receive any response within number seconds, it assumes the server does not respond and either retries the transmission or tries next available server. Number of retries is set with retry statement:

    retry number

The example of `raddb/client.conf' follows:

    server first 10.11.10.1 secret 1645 1646
    server second 10.11.10.1 secret 1645 1646
    source_ip 127.0.0.1
    timeout 3
    retry 5

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