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On 11/19/2011 10:38 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> I recently switched from FBSD 7.0 i386
> to FBSD 8.2 amd64
>
> my radius only sees garbage in place of the password, so no one
> can authenticate.
>
> Since I changed both OS (7.0->8.2) AND platform (i386->amd64), I am
> unsure where to start looking for an encryption problem.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated. Yes, I could switch to
> freeradius, but would that change/help an encryption issue?

I am not sure if cistron works correctly on 64bit architectures.
Is plain text authentication working?

Cistron is unmaintained, but there is a very low traffic
mailing list, you could ask there.
http://lists.cistron.nl/mailman/listinfo/cistron-radius

HTH, Nikos