svchost - radius accounting.

[Russell]

I have several svchosts running listeing on various ports
identified as 'radius accounting'. I trying to find out
what program is starting these up. Anything in Windows XP
that would use radius accounting?

 

[Guess Who]

A simple search on Microsoft's web site would have yielded your answer.
RADIUS stands for Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service.

Go here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;168667

for more info.

 

[Guess Who]

Also, here's more info on RADIUS accounting:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2866.txt

 

[Russell]

I had found that infomation you provided using google
search. What I am trying to track down is what has
suddenly decided it needs radius accounting. Radius
accounting never used to be installed on my machine. So
where did it come from. What program/service is using it;
why is it starting up?