Chapter 4 Configuring Cisco Access Registrar 4.2

Configuring a Basic Site

Step 2 Use the reload command to reload your server.

reload

Testing Your Configuration

Now that you have configured some users and a NAS, you are ready to test your configuration. There are two ways you can test your site:

1.You can act as a user and dial in to your NAS, and check that you can successfully log in.

2.You can run the radclient command, and specify one of the default users when making a request.

Using radclient

You can use the radclient command simple to create and send a packet. The following example creates an Access-Request packet for user john with password john, and the packet identifier p001. It displays the packet before sending it. It uses the send command to send the packet, which displays the response packet object identifier, p002. Then, the example shows how to display the contents of the response packet.

Step 1 Run the radclient command.

. /radclient -s

Step 2 The radclient command prompts you for the administrator’s username and password (as defined in the Cisco AR configuration). Use admin for the admin name, and aicuser for the password.

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Logging in to localhost... done.

Step 3 Create a simple Access-Request packet for User-Name john and User-Password john. At the prompt, enter:

simple john john

p001

The radclient command displays the ID of the packet p001.

Step 4 Enter the packet identifier:

p001

Packet: code = Access-Request, id = 0, length = 0, attributes =

User-Name = john

User-Password = john

NAS-Identifier = localhost

NAS-Port = 0

Step 5 Send the request to the default host (localhost), enter:

 

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