Prestige 1600 Universal Access Concentrator

authentication server, or on a separate host. RADIUS accounting can be configured in Menu 24.3.2 - System Maintenance - External Server as shown next.

Menu 23.2 - System Security - External Server

Authentication Server:

Active= No

Type: RADIUS

Server Address=

Port #= 1645

Key= ********

Accounting Server:

Active= No

Type: RADIUS

Server Address=

Port #= 1646

Key= ********

Press ENTER to Confirm or ESC to Cancel:

Press Space Bar to Toggle.

Figure 12-5 Menu 24.3.2 - System Maintenance - Accounting Server

These fields are explained in the following table.

Table 12-2 Menu 24.3.3 System Maintenance - Accounting Server Fields

Field

Description

 

 

Active

Determines whether the accounting facility is on or off.

 

 

Type

Determines the type of the accounting server. At present only RADIUS is

 

supported.

Server

The IP address of the accounting server.

Address

 

 

 

Port #

The port number used by the accounting server. The default is port

 

1646.

Key

The “password” used to authenticate your Prestige to the RADIUS

 

server. Please note that this is between the Prestige and the server; it

 

has nothing to do with the dial-in users.

Once the accounting server is enabled and a user is authenticated, the Prestige sends messages to the external server. Some examples are shown next.

Mon Aug 14 15:20:19 2000

Acct-Status-Type = Start

Acct-Session-Id = "40000000006"

User-Name = "john"

NAS-IP-Address = 192.168.1.1

NAS-Port = 720896

Mon Aug 14 15:20:25 2000

Acct-Status-Type = Stop

Acct-Session-Id = "40000000006"

User-Name = "john"

Acct-Input-Octets = 183

Acct-Output-Octets = 242

Acct-Session-Time = 12

NAS-IP-Address = 192.168.1.1

NAS-Port = 720896

Figure 12-6 Examples of RADIUS Accounting Message

RADIUS Support

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