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    FreeRadius won't start (differs from MaxC post)

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved pfSense Packages
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    • J
      jeroen234
      last edited by

      the pfsense freeradius package is talered to pfsense the one from freebsd needs more libs then pfsense has
      in the pfsense freeradius gui there is a small gui error
      if you replace freeradius.xml and freeradius.inc on location /usr/local/pkg
      with the same files from http://wlelystad.homeip.net/pfsense/freeradius/

      and then go to freeradius settings on the gui and save then the correct freeradius config is made and freeradius will start

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      • jahonixJ
        jahonix
        last edited by

        yep, just got it working this way.
        Thanks alot - especially for the extended options accessible via webGUI!

        Now I can lockout the kids at night when they are supposed to sleep (if it works, haven't tested it yet but I am confident…)

        jahonix

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        • J
          jeroen234
          last edited by

          for that option you need to config the captive portal with these options:
          Hard timeout  leave blank
          send RADIUS accounting packets
          Reauthenticate connected users every minute
          Accounting updates interim update

          then pfsense will check every min if the user is still alowed

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          • J
            Justinw
            last edited by

            Well the updates look great, apparently I am still doing something wrong though here is the break down again:

            With your updates I am now getting this error :

            radiusd.conf[246] Failed to link to module 'rlm_expr': /usr/local/lib/rlm_expr.a: invalid file format

            When I use an invalid bind address it does say this:

            There appears to be another RADIUS server running on the authentication port 1812

            Without jeroen234 upates I got the error on line 226 as previously posted…

            It sounds like I may just still have a few bad lib files that aren't being built correclty, even with a fresh radius install, I'm not sure exactly why that is, but I would greatly appreciate if you could post the other lib files on your site for radius as well and I can see what I can do from there.  Thanks again for all your help.

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            • J
              jeroen234
              last edited by

              i think that you better can try a complete fresh install of pfsense
              http://pfsense.com/~sullrich/1.0.1-SNAPSHOT-12-23-2006/pfSense.iso.gz
              i can post the 50 or so freeradius files
              but if youre hd is not good then that makes no sense
              and my libs are the same as that you installed with the pfsense freeradius package

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              • J
                Justinw
                last edited by

                Working now

                I read sergu a post by sergu and what he did worked for me except I added a step

                Uninstall package via gui
                delete package with pkg_delete
                reinstall the package with pkg_add
                Install the package gui again

                Currently radiusd is running

                why?? I don't know

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                • J
                  jeroen234
                  last edited by

                  it works that is good  ;D

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                  • J
                    Justinw
                    last edited by

                    It seems to be working great, I want to thank you again for all your help.  After I got it working I uploaded your package updates, they look great.  I do have one question though, what does the Ip-address field do, I know it uses attribute 8, framed-ip, but I'm not sure what its application is, could you give more info on that?  Is it supposed to change your ip address dynamically to the on assigned?

                    I'm going to reload a second drive and see if I can trace the problem down so my 1 million posts can add up to something now.  Thanks again!

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                    • J
                      jeroen234
                      last edited by

                      the ip option is for the Issue IP Addresses via RADIUS server option of the pfsense pppoe server

                      there was some work going on to get this also in the vpn ptpp server

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                      • J
                        Justinw
                        last edited by

                        Well here is the update on the radius package:

                        Install Package
                        go to terminal issue:
                        pkg_delete freeradius-1.1.3_1
                        (some errors about not being to delete everything will come up, that's fine)
                        pkg_add -r freeradius
                        start the service, done deal

                        Sorry I don't know more than that but it should make it easier for the problem to be fixed, thanks to everyone who helpmed me out.

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