Time for action – using the preferred way for status checking

The following steps will demonstrate how to perform status checking:

1. Update the home_server definitions for my-org.com and your-org.com to include the following directive:

   status_check = status-server

2. To see how FreeRADIUS sends Status-Server packets to a dead server simply shut down the FreeRADIUS server for your-org.com and keep on sending authentication requests for [e-mail] to the my-org.com server:

   Marking home server 192.168.1.106 port 1812 as zombie (it looks like it is dead).
   Sending Status-Server of id 97 to 192.168.1.106 port 1812Message-Authenticator := 0x00...
   NAS-Identifier := "Status Check. Are you alive?"
   

3. Start the FreeRADIUS server for your-org.com again in debug mode and see how it answers to the Status-Server packets sent to it from the my-org.com server:

   rad_recv: Status-Server packet from host 192.168.1.105 port 1814, id=160, length=68
   Message-Authenticator = 0x7b2f0a58666d532b2...
   NAS...