Chapter 16 Configuring Security for the ML-Series Card

RADIUS Stand Alone Mode

 

Command

Purpose

Step 5

 

 

Router (config-line)# login

Apply the authentication list to a line or set of lines.

 

authentication {default list-name}

• If you specify default, use the default list created with the aaa

 

 

 

 

authentication login command.

 

 

• For list-name, specify the list created with the aaa authentication

 

 

login command.

Step 6

 

 

Router (config)# end

Return to privileged EXEC mode.

Step 7

 

 

Router# show running-config

Verify your entries.

Step 8

 

 

Router# copy running-config

(Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.

 

startup-config

 

 

 

 

To disable AAA, use the no aaa new-modelglobal configuration command. To disable AAA authentication, use the no aaa authentication login {default list-name} method1 [method2...] global configuration command. To either disable RADIUS authentication for logins or to return to the default value, use the no login authentication {default list-name} line configuration command.

Defining AAA Server Groups

You can configure the ML-Series card to use AAA server groups to group existing server hosts for authentication. You select a subset of the configured server hosts and use them for a particular service. The server group is used with a global server-host list, which lists the IP addresses of the selected server hosts.

Server groups also can include multiple host entries for the same server if each entry has a unique identifier (the combination of the IP address and UDP port number), allowing different ports to be individually defined as RADIUS hosts providing a specific AAA service. If you configure two different host entries on the same RADIUS server for the same service (for example, accounting), the second configured host entry acts as a fail-over backup to the first one.

You use the server group server configuration command to associate a particular server with a defined group server. You can either identify the server by its IP address or identify multiple host instances or entries by using the optional auth-portand acct-portkeywords.

Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to define the AAA server group and associate a particular RADIUS server with it:

 

Command

Purpose

Step 1

 

 

Router# configure terminal

Enter global configuration mode.

Step 2

 

 

Router (config)# aaa new-model

Enable AAA.

 

 

 

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