Re: assigned numbers for RADIUS

[Remco van de Meent <remco@vandemeent.net>]

Russell Coker wrote:
> The following is in our /etc/services:
> radacct         1813/tcp                        # Radius Accounting
> radacct         1813/udp                        # Radius Accounting
> 
> Now SuSE7.0 apparently has "radius-acct" instead which means that my
> software which works on Debian fails on SuSE.  I could make it check
> for "radacct" and "radius-acct", but I don't want to.
> 
> What I want to know is what is the right name for this port number in
> /etc/services?

According to IANA:

radius-acct     1813/tcp    RADIUS Accounting
radius-acct     1813/udp    RADIUS Accounting

So I think it should be fixed in the netbase package.


cheers,
Remco.