Alen, As other explained, when the port is set to 0, the daemon will take any port dynamically. However, thanks to Tim, he cleared out my confusion, and I see clearly the ports are in fact 1812 and 1813.
udp 0 0 *:radius *:* udp 0 0 *:radius-acct *:* So after all, it's not selecting random port numbers. Is this a bug? Alex -----Original Message----- From: freeradius-users-bounces+alexbahoor=sbcglobal....@lists.freeradius.org [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+alexbahoor=sbcglobal....@lists.freeradius.o rg] On Behalf Of Alan Buxey Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 2:52 PM To: FreeRadius users mailing list Subject: Re: Config Examples Hi, > How rude! I can't believe highly professional people could be so uncivilized > on mail aliases. It's cowardly to hide behind the internet and insult > people. Where is the moderator from all that? hide behind? aliases? i'm not sure where this paranoia comes from - we arent using aliases or hiding who we are. anyway...... your initial question was about the config file and the values in it. if you choose the value '0' then this means freeradius will bind to your chosen interface with the default RFC values - ie UDP 1812, 1813 and 1814 - you could just as well configure the value if you wanted. all this talk of 'dynamic port assignment' is just confusing what the option is, how it operates and WHY you would choose a different port. if you ran your daemon, and then used netstat with correct arguments you would clearly see that the daemon listens on the expected port and is happy for clients - thats CLIENTS - to come from any source port - which is what clients do. ie *:* alan - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4665 (20091206) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4665 (20091206) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html