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RADIUS

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

EAP-Message

Synopsis

Attribute Number

79

Length

3 or more octets

Value

STRING

Allowed in

Access-Accept, Access-Reject, Access-Challenge, Access-Request

Prohibited in

Accounting-Request, Accounting-Response

Presence in Packet

Not required

Maximum Iterations

Unlimited in Access-Request and Access-Challenge packets;1 in Access-Accept and Access-Reject packets

This attribute serves as the method by which EAP messages are transmitted within a RADIUS packet. The RADIUS client machine places all of the messages received from the client into individual EAP-Message attributes and wraps them into a standard Access-Request packet. The RADIUS server then returns EAP messages in Access-Challenge, Access-Accept, and Access-Reject messages.

The Message-Authenticator attribute (detailed a bit later in this chapter) is required to be present if this attribute is used; this is to protect the integrity of RADIUS over EAP to the same degree that EAP affords transactional integrity on its side of the link. The Message-Authenticator must be used to protect all Access-Request, Access-Challenge, Access-Accept, and Access-Reject messages which hold one or more EAP-Message attributes.

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