Black Box 24 port, 16 port manual Radius parameters description

RADIUS parameters description

The RADIUS parameters are as follows:

retry

(for authentication) the number of times the unit will re-send a request to a RADIUS authentication host, before re-presenting another login to the user.

(for accounting) the number of times the unit will re-send a request to a RADIUS accounting host, before understanding that the accounting request has failed.

The default retry value is 5; the unit will try the primary host up to 5. You can enter values between 0 (don’t retry) and 255. If you have different authentication and accounting hosts unit will retry first the authentication host(s) and then the accounting host(s).

timeout - the time in seconds between unit sending a request to a RADIUS accounting or authentication host and receiving a reply. If no reply is received before the expiry of the timeout period, the unit will retry the same host up to and including the number of retry attempts specified under ‘retry’.

The default timeout period is 3 seconds (you can enter values between 1 and 255). accounting - turns accounting on or off within the unit; the default is off.

RADIUS accounting

RADIUS host	accounting flag	state of RADIUS	result
specified		host
no	off	-	no accounting
yes	on	up	accounting in both Console Server and
			RADIUS host
yes	on	down	accounting in Console Server only

Notes on Table above:

‘accounting’ within the Console Server is an increment of the session id (see below).

‘accounting’ in the RADIUS accounting host means that you should be able to see accounting information by interrogating the host (see your RADIUS documentation).

acct_port - the UDP port number for RADIUS accounting. The default value is 1646 which should match most RADIUS implementations. Change this value if your RADIUS host is using a different UDP port number.

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