Pop quiz – clients.conf

As an exercise read through the clients.conf file and answer the following questions on the comments inside the file.

1. How do we distinguish between various client sections?
2. True or false: Using a netmask other than 32 is recommended.
3. If a client connects with an IP Address that you cannot determine beforehand, what will be the recommended way to handle this?
4. You have an old legacy NAS that will contact the FreeRADIUS server. What required attribute may be missing in the Access-Request packet and how will you compensate for this?
5. Does FreeRADIUS support clients using the IPv6 protocol?
6. True or false: The shared secret does not need to be more than 8 characters because only the first 8 characters are used.
7. What may happen if the nastype is identified incorrectly?

As you can see there is valuable information inside the comments of a configuration file. This information should be considered when you set up FreeRADIUS.