Download GNU Radius 1.6.1

Radius can be used to grant access to the network to authenticate users. This is an aaa protocol, which is used by many ISPs and network administrators. GNU Radius is an open source implementation that runs on most Linux and *nix machines. The developers have released version 1.6.1 with the following announcement:

Version 1.6.1:

This minor release fixes compilation of radiusd with gcc version 4.3.0 (or later), which overly optimizes some code. It does such a remarkable job of optimization, that reduces a perfectly valid code to explicit dead loops in the produced object files. To avoid this, starting from this version GNU Radius will be compiled with -fno-strict-aliasing.

I can only repeat after Linus Torvalds, that “the aliasing code in particular is not even worth enabling, it’s just not possible to sanely tell gcc when some things can alias.”