Chapter 23 Authentication & Accounting

 

Table 62

Advanced Application > Auth and Acct > Auth and Acct Setup (continued)

 

LABEL

 

DESCRIPTION

 

Apply

 

Click Apply to save your changes to the Switch’s run-time memory. The Switch

 

 

 

loses these changes if it is turned off or loses power, so use the Save link on the

 

 

 

top navigation panel to save your changes to the non-volatile memory when you are

 

 

 

done configuring.

 

 

 

 

 

Cancel

 

Click Cancel to begin configuring this screen afresh.

 

 

 

 

23.2.4 Vendor Specific Attribute

RFC 2865 standard specifies a method for sending vendor-specific information between a RADIUS server and a network access device (for example, the Switch). A company can create Vendor Specific Attributes (VSAs) to expand the functionality of a RADIUS server.

The Switch supports VSAs that allow you to perform the following actions based on user authentication:

•Limit bandwidth on incoming or outgoing traffic for the port the user connects to.

•Assign account privilege levels (See Section 45.7 on page 328 for more information on account privilege levels) for the authenticated user.

The VSAs are composed of the following:

•Vendor-ID: An identification number assigned to the company by the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority). ZyXEL’s vendor ID is 890.

•Vendor-Type: A vendor specified attribute, identifying the setting you want to modify.

•Vendor-data: A value you want to assign to the setting.

"Refer to the documentation that comes with your RADIUS server on how to configure VSAs for users authenticating via the RADIUS server.

The following table describes the VSAs supported on the Switch.

Table 63 Supported VSAs

FUNCTION

ATTRIBUTE

 

 

Ingress Bandwidth

Vendor-Id = 890

Assignment

Vendor-Type = 1

 

Vendor-data = ingress rate (Kbps in decimal format)

 

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