03-22-2018
Home servers are a huge market now, you are correct that a NAS is a kind of home server. You might not have realized wireless routers, etc are also servers, not just hardware, with important software elements like DNS and DHCP daemons. Some wireless routers can even do NAS via a USB port.
As for what a home server does, that depends entirely on what you need it to do. It can do anything any other computer can do. It can host files, game servers, network daemons, terminals real and virtual, and more. Describing all your options would be to enumerate the universe.
As for which, and how you implement it, that is to some degree a matter of taste.
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radtest
RADTEST(1) FreeRADIUS Daemon RADTEST(1)
NAME
radtest - send packets to a RADIUS server, show reply
SYNOPSIS
radtest [-d raddb_directory] [-t pap/chap/mschap] [-x ] [-4 ] [-6 ] user password radius-server nas-port-number secret [ppphint] [nasname]
DESCRIPTION
radtest is a frontend to radclient(1). It generates a list of attribute/value pairs based on the command line arguments, and feeds these
into radclient. It's a fast and convenient way to test a radius server.
OPTIONS
-d raddb_directory
The directory that contains the RADIUS dictionary files. Defaults to /etc/raddb.
-t pap/chap/mschap/eap-md5
Choose the authentiction method to use. e.g. "-t pap", "-t chap", "-t mschap", or "-t eap-md5",. Defaults to "pap". Using EAP-MD5
requires that the "radeapclient" program is installed.
-x Enables debugging output for the RADIUS client.
-4 Use NAS-IP-Address for the NAS address (default)
-6 Use NAS-IPv6-Address for the NAS address (default)
user Username to send.
password
Password of the user.
radius-server
Hostname or IP address of the radius server. Optionally, you may specify a port by appending :port
nas-port-number
The value of the NAS-Port attribute. Is an integer between 0 and 2^31, and it really doesn't matter what you put here. 10 will do
fine.
secret The shared secret for this client.
ppphint
If you put an integer > 0 here, radtest (or actually radclient) will add the attribute Framed-Protocol = PPP to the request packet.
nasname
If present, this will be resolved to an IP address and added to the request packet as the NAS-IP-Address attribute. If you don't
specify it, the local hostname of the system will be used.
SEE ALSO
radiusd(8), radclient(1).
AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl.
5 April 2010 RADTEST(1)