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Re: assigned numbers for RADIUS



On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 11:31:05AM +0200, 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?  If our name isn't the official and provably correct name 
> then we should add the other name as well.  If our name is the provably 
> correct name then I will contact SuSE and ask them to amend the services 
> file they supply.

The official name is radius-acct. See
http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers. I really wish Debian's
/etc/services would be a copy of this file, that would be very useful and would
immeadiately fix the tons of wishlist bugs filed against it.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
  Guus Sliepen <guus@sliepen.warande.net>

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