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Network Access Servers Requirements: Extended RADIUS Practices
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Network Working Group D. Mitton
Request for Comments: 2882 Nortel Networks
Category: Informational July 2000
Network Access Servers Requirements:
Extended RADIUS Practices
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document describes current practices implemented in NAS products
that go beyond the scope of the RADIUS RFCs 2138, 2139 [1,2]. The
purpose of this effort is to give examples that show the need for
addressing and standardizing these types of ad-hoc functions. Since
many of these features require a matching server support component,
the ability to deploy and manage interoperable NAS and AAA server
products is severely hindered.
These practices are documented here to show functions that are
obviously desired in developing future AAA protocols for NAS
deployment.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. Disclaimers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2. Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Attribute Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Attribute Conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. Attribute Value Conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2.1 Vendor Specific Enumerations Proposal . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.3 Vendor Specific Attribute Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.3.1 VSAs in use by clients: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.3.2 Clients that support multiple Vendors: . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Attribute Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. New Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5. Additional Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.1 Password Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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