RADIUS Authentication and Accounting
Configuring the Switch for RADIUS Authentication
For example, suppose that your switch is configured to use three RADIUS servers for authenticating access through Telnet and SSH. Two of these servers use the same encryption key. In this case your plan is to configure the switch with the following global authentication parameters:
■Allow only two tries to correctly enter username and password.
■Use the global encryption key to support the two servers that use the same key. (For this example, assume that you did not configure these two servers with a
■Use a
■Allow three seconds for request timeouts.
■Allow two retries following a request that did not receive a response.
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