ASYNC ROUTER AR-P, AR-5, AND SYNC ROUTER USER’S MANUAL

Appendix D: Interoperability

Routers can interoperate with multiple routers from multiple vendors in a coordinated manner. Use the instructions in this appendix to provide interoperability with:

RADIUS servers

SecurID servers

Cisco routers

IPX synchronous routers (Sync Router only)

TCP/IP synchronous routers

CSUs/DSUs (Sync Router only)

D.1 RADIUS Servers

RADIUS is a protocol that allows multiple devices (like the Router) to access a single server for authentication, authorization, and configuration information. This allows all names and passwords to be administered from a single point, greatly simplifying the task in environments where many devices are on the network.

RADIUS server software that executes on a UNIX host is available without charge. Source code is available from:

Livingston Enterprises at

ftp://ftp.livingston.com/pub/livingston/radius-1.16.tar.Z

or Merit® at: ftp://merit.edu/pub/michnet/radius.1.17.tar.Z

The Router has been tested with both of these types of RADIUS servers. If you have not previously run RADIUS, you should obtain a new copy of the software and compile it for your system, and follow its provided instructions.

The RADIUS documentation from Merit and Livingston refers to a Network Access Server (NAS). NAS is a generic term for a dial-in router.

Configuration

To use RADIUS to authenticate clients connecting to the Router, perform the following configuration steps:

1.Configure the RADIUS server to accept queries from the Router. To do this, add the Router’s name (or IP address) and password to the clients file on the RADIUS server.

For the Livingston RADIUS server, the default location of this file is /etc/raddb/clients. For the Merit RADIUS server, the default location of this file is /usr/private/etc/raddb.

2.Set the authentication method on the Router to RADIUS, and provide the name of the RADIUS server to the Router. To do this use config, or use the following commands.

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