Chapter 1 Overview

RADIUS Protocol

Step 8 Cisco Access Registrar formats the response based on the Response dictionary and sends it back to the client (NAS).

Step 9 The NAS receives the response and communicates with the user, which may include sending the user an IP address to indicate the connection has been successfully established.

Types of RADIUS Messages

The client/server packet exchange consists primarily of the following types of RADIUS messages:

Access-Request—sent by the client (NAS) requesting access

Access-Reject—sent by the RADIUS server rejecting access

Access-Accept—sent by the RADIUS server allowing access

Access-Challenge—sent by the RADIUS server requesting more information in order to allow access. The NAS, after communicating with the user, responds with another Access-Request.

When you use RADIUS accounting, the client and server can also exchange the following two types of messages:

Accounting-Request—sent by the client (NAS) requesting accounting

Accounting-Response—sent by the RADIUS server acknowledging accounting

Packet Contents

The information in each RADIUS message is encapsulated in a UDP (User Datagram Protocol) data packet. A packet is a block of data in a standard format for transmission. It is accompanied by other information, such as the origin and destination of the data.

lists each message packet which contains the following five fields:

Table 1-1RADIUS Packet Fields

Fields

Description

 

 

Code

Indicates what type of message it is: Access-Request,

 

Access-Accept, Access-Reject, Access-Challenge,

 

Accounting-Request, or Accounting-Response.

 

 

Identifier

Contains a value that is copied into the server’s response so the

 

client can correctly associate its requests and the server’s responses

 

when multiple users are being authenticated simultaneously.

 

 

Length

Provides a simple error-checking device. The server silently drops

 

a packet if it is shorter than the value specified in the length field,

 

and ignores the octets beyond the value of the length field.

 

 

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