Hello group! First post here, pardon any repetition. I could not find a url to search archives of this mailinglist. Anywho, I have an ascend max 6000 and use it for dial-up users. The ascend unit talks to two unix cistron-radius machines. When I was hired to rebuild the servers, i saw some entries at the begining of the radius users file, which looked an awful lot like this: #route-1 Password = "somepassword" #route-Summit-1 Password = "somepassword" #dovbs-1 Password = "somepassword" #dovbs-Summit-1 Password = "somepassword" #ipxroute-1 Password = "somepassword" #initial-banner Password = "somepassword" #banner Password = "somepassword" #bridge-ts1 Password = "somepassword" #route-ts1 Password = "somepassword" #route-Summit-1 Password = "somepassword" #route-1 Password = "somepassword" #ipxroute-ts1 Password = "somepassword" #ipxroute-Summit-1 Password = "somepassword" #initial-banner-ts1 Password = "somepassword" #initial-banner-MAX4000 Password = "somepassword" #initial-banner-MAX4000-1 Password = "somepassword" #pools-ts1 Password = "somepassword" #route-MAX4000 Password = "somepassword" #route-MAX4000-1 Password = "somepassword" #dovbs-MAX4000 Password = "somepassword" #dovbs-MAX4000-1 Password = "somepassword" #bridge-MAX4000 Password = "somepassword" #bridge-MAX4000-1 Password = "somepassword" #bridge-Summit-1 Password = "somepassword" #pools-MAX4000 Password = "somepassword" #pools-MAX4000-1 Password = "somepassword" #permconn-Summit-1 Password = "somepassword" #initial-banner-MAX4000 Password = "somepassword" #initial-banner-MAX4000-1 Password = "somepassword" #initial-banner-Summit Password = "somepassword" #appleroute-1 Password = "somepassword" #appleroute-Summit-1 Password = "somepassword" #frdlink-Summit-1 Password = "somepassword" #perconn-Summit-1 Password = "somepassword" #pools-Summit Password = "somepassword" I commented out those entries since cistron-radius rejected them as syntax errors. Everything runs well.. An unscheduled reboot of the ascend unit happened the other day and I noticed these entries in the unix radius logfile, which show failures on many of the entries from above. They appear to be configuration options that are activated by the radius authentication. weird to me. The ascend unit functions fine still, but does anyone know what these entries are for? offending logfile entries: Sat Apr 16 17:42:36 2005: Info: Starting - reading configuration files ... Sat Apr 16 17:42:36 2005: Info: Ready to process requests. Sat Apr 16 17:43:30 2005: Auth: Unknown user: [route-Summit-1] (from nas summit.XXX.net/S0) Sat Apr 16 17:43:30 2005: Error: Unknown packet type [51] from nas [summit.XXX.net] Sat Apr 16 17:43:30 2005: Auth: Unknown user: [dovbs-Summit-1] (from nas summit.XXX.net/S0) Sat Apr 16 17:43:30 2005: Auth: Unknown user: [route-Summit-1] (from nas summit.XXX.net/S0) Sat Apr 16 17:43:30 2005: Auth: Unknown user: [ipxroute-Summit-1] (from nas summit.XXX.net/S0) Sat Apr 16 17:43:30 2005: Auth: Unknown user: [appleroute-Summit-1] (from nas summit.XXX.net/S0) Sat Apr 16 17:43:30 2005: Auth: Unknown user: [pools-Summit] (from nas summit.XXX.net/S0) Sat Apr 16 17:43:30 2005: Auth: Unknown user: [permconn-Summit-1] (from nas summit.XXX.net/S0) Sat Apr 16 17:43:30 2005: Auth: Unknown user: [frdlink-Summit-1] (from nas summit.XXX.net/S0) Sat Apr 16 17:43:30 2005: Auth: Unknown user: [bridge-Summit-1] (from nas summit.XXX.net/S0) Sat Apr 16 17:43:30 2005: Auth: Unknown user: [initial-banner-Summit] (from nas summit.XXX.net/S0) Sat Apr 16 17:43:30 2005: Auth: Unknown user: [banner] (from nas summit.XXX.net/S0) Sat Apr 16 17:43:30 2005: Auth: Unknown user: [dovbs-1] (from nas summit.XXX.net/S0) Sat Apr 16 17:43:30 2005: Auth: Unknown user: [route-1] (from nas summit.XXX.net/S0) Sat Apr 16 17:43:30 2005: Auth: Unknown user: [ipxroute-1] (from nas summit.XXX.net/S0) Sat Apr 16 17:43:30 2005: Auth: Unknown user: [appleroute-1] (from nas summit.XXX.net/S0) Sat Apr 16 17:43:30 2005: Auth: Unknown user: [initial-banner] (from nas summit.XXX.net/S0) Sat Apr 16 17:43:34 2005: Error: Unknown packet type [51] from nas [summit.XXX.net] tia -- Peter Darling plotthickens at gmail.com ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com Archives: http://www.nexial.com/mailinglists/