Strange problem, HiperARC & FreeRADIUS & MacRADIUS

[Adam Moffett]

Hi, I've just started using FreeRADIUS and I've encountered something that's got me a little baffled.

We've been using MacRADIUS for years, but we needed something that could support realms in order to add certain new services.

I set up a RADIUS proxy using a minimal installation of Mandrake Linux 9.0 and compiled FreeRADIUS 0.7.1 from the source. I intended for the proxy to send all requests containing a certain realm over to another ISP's radius servers, and send anything else to the existing MacRADIUS system.

So I set up the special realm, and that seems to work fine. And I set up a NULL and DEFAULT realm that direct everything else to MacRADIUS.

At first everything seemed to be working, but then we discovered this very strange thing. Authentication requests from our 3Com Total Control unit (HiperARC V4.2.32) in which the username started with a Capitol "S" would get the "S" stripped out when they were sent to MacRADIUS.

We can observe that the username has the "S" when it goes to FreeRADIUS, and that it doesn't have the "S" when it goes to MacRADIUS...but beyond that we are confused.

I just need someone to point me in the right direction.

Thanks in Advance,
Adam Moffett

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