RFC 2865 (rfc2865) - Page 2 of 76


Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)



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RFC 2865                         RADIUS                        June 2000


Table of Contents

   1.     Introduction ..........................................    3
      1.1       Specification of Requirements ...................    4
      1.2       Terminology .....................................    5
   2.     Operation .............................................    5
      2.1       Challenge/Response ..............................    7
      2.2       Interoperation with PAP and CHAP ................    8
      2.3       Proxy ...........................................    8
      2.4       Why UDP? ........................................   11
      2.5       Retransmission Hints ............................   12
      2.6       Keep-Alives Considered Harmful ..................   13
   3.     Packet Format .........................................   13
   4.     Packet Types ..........................................   17
      4.1       Access-Request ..................................   17
      4.2       Access-Accept ...................................   18
      4.3       Access-Reject ...................................   20
      4.4       Access-Challenge ................................   21
   5.     Attributes ............................................   22
      5.1       User-Name .......................................   26
      5.2       User-Password ...................................   27
      5.3       CHAP-Password ...................................   28
      5.4       NAS-IP-Address ..................................   29
      5.5       NAS-Port ........................................   30
      5.6       Service-Type ....................................   31
      5.7       Framed-Protocol .................................   33
      5.8       Framed-IP-Address ...............................   34
      5.9       Framed-IP-Netmask ...............................   34
      5.10      Framed-Routing ..................................   35
      5.11      Filter-Id .......................................   36
      5.12      Framed-MTU ......................................   37
      5.13      Framed-Compression ..............................   37
      5.14      Login-IP-Host ...................................   38
      5.15      Login-Service ...................................   39
      5.16      Login-TCP-Port ..................................   40
      5.17      (unassigned) ....................................   41
      5.18      Reply-Message ...................................   41
      5.19      Callback-Number .................................   42
      5.20      Callback-Id .....................................   42
      5.21      (unassigned) ....................................   43
      5.22      Framed-Route ....................................   43
      5.23      Framed-IPX-Network ..............................   44
      5.24      State ...........................................   45
      5.25      Class ...........................................   46
      5.26      Vendor-Specific .................................   47
      5.27      Session-Timeout .................................   48
      5.28      Idle-Timeout ....................................   49
      5.29      Termination-Action ..............................   49



Rigney, et al.              Standards Track