1 .TH clients.conf 5 "13 June 2005" "" "FreeRADIUS client configuration"
3 clients.conf \- FreeRADIUS client configuration
7 file contains definitions of RADIUS clients.
9 The information in this file overrides any information provided in
16 The file format is the same as that used for
22 Each RADIUS client entry has the following basic form:
25 client <hostname|ip-address|ip-network> {
30 ip-network is used to specify a network of clients. Networks are
31 specified in CIDR notation. If multiple overlapping networks are
32 defined, the best match (smallest possible network) will be chosen for
35 The attributes that can appear in a
37 section are listed below. Required attributes are labelled as
38 such. All other attributes are optional.
42 The RADIUS shared secret used for communication between the client/NAS
43 and the RADIUS server.
45 .B shortname [Required]
46 A short alias that can be used in place of the IP address or fully
47 qualified hostname provided in the first line of the section.
50 The nastype attribute is used to tell the
52 script which NAS-specific method it should use when checking
55 The following values are currently recognized:
72 Reserved for future use.
75 Reserved for future use.
86 This adds a client for the loopback address. This is useful in testing
88 server locally, for example with
92 client 192.168.0.0/24 {
94 shortname = private-network-1
98 This entry represents any client from the 192.168.0.0/24 network.
100 .I /etc/raddb/clients.conf
102 .I /etc/raddb/radiusd.conf
105 .BR radiusd.conf (5),
110 This manual page was authored by Shawn K. O'Shea <shawn@eth0.net>.
112 FreeRADIUS is authored by the FreeRADIUS team.
113 http://freeradius.org/