Re: monitoring freeradius with nagios

Mike wrote:
> All,
> When trying to use the "radauth" tool from nagios to monitor
> freeradius, I get the following in the freeradius log:
>
> Error: WARNING: Malformed RADIUS packet from host ... too long (length
> 18432 > maximum 4096)
>
> radtest seems to be ok. has anyone else experienced this or knows
> what is wrong?

I haven't seen it. I note that 18432 is hex 0x7200. I suspect that
the NAGIOS people missed a 'htons()' somewhere, and the field should be
0x0072.

Alan DeKok.
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