Re: assigned numbers for RADIUS

[miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <[🔎] 20010702141256.A14551@oloon.student.utwente.nl>,
Remco van de Meent  <remco@vandemeent.net> wrote:
>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.

... but keep the radacct for backwards compatibility please since
almost all radius soafware uses getservbyname("radacct") instead
of radius-acct.

Mike.