CHAPTER 8: ACCESS USING TACACS+

ACCESS USING TACACS+

 

 

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Major

Minor

Packet type

 

Sequence

Flags

Version

Version

 

 

number

 

 

 

Session ID

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Length

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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FIGURE 8–2: TACACS packet format

The portions of the TACACS packet are defined as follows:

Major Version: The major TACACS+ version number.

Minor version: The minor TACACS+ version number. This is intended to allow revisions to the TACACS+ protocol while maintaining backwards compatibility.

Packet type: Possible values are:

TAC_PLUS_AUTHEN:= 0x01 (authentication) TAC_PLUS_AUTHOR:= 0x02 (authorization) TAC_PLUS_ACCT:= 0x03 (accounting)

Sequence number: The sequence number of the current packet for the current session.

Flags: This field contains various flags in the form of bitmaps. The flag values signify whether the packet is encrypted.

Session ID: The ID for this TACACS+ session.

Length: The total length of the TACACS+ packet body (not including the header).

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