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Prestige 1600 Universal Access Concentrator

RADIUS Support

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

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
Address

The IP address of the accounting server.

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.

Figure 12-6 Examples of RADIUS Accounting Message

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

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:

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