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RADIUS
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RADIUS

by Jonathan Hassell
October 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
206 pages
8h 30m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Tunneling Protocols

With the advent of work-from-home strategies and the branch-office concept becoming ever more popular, the dependence on access to corporate networks and privatized ISPs has become stronger. There exists a way to use a sort of tunnel to log in to corporate network over the Internet and access that network’s resources as though you were locally attached to it. Although discussing tunnels is beyond the scope of this book, RADIUS does support a variety of tunneling protocols, both voluntary and compulsory. New RADIUS attributes were introduced with RFC 2868 that provide support for this emerging technology.

As well, private ISPs and even some corporate IT data centers want to be able to account for the use of their service for accounting, billing, and auditing purposes. RADIUS accounting, of course supporting the AAA model as discussed in Chapter 1, is an obvious way to collect this data, especially with the new tunneling-support attributes, some modifications to the Acct-Status-Type attribute, and some entirely new attributes specifically focused at RADIUS accounting.

The new values for the Acct-Status-Type attribute are listed in Table 9-1.

Table 9-1. New values per RFC 2867 for Acct-Status-Type

Value

Name

Description

Also requires

9

Tunnel-Start

Marks the creation of a tunnel with another end point.

User-Name, NAS-IP-Address, Acct-Delay-Time, Event-Timestamp, Tunnel-Type, Tunnel-Medium-Type, Tunnel-Client-Endpoint, Tunnel-Server-Endpoint, Acct-Tunnel-Connection ...

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