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 bob@your-org.com 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 ...

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