Network Working Group                                       Paul Congdon
INTERNET-DRAFT                                   Hewlett Packard Company
Category: Informational                                    Bernard Aboba
<draft-congdon-radius-8021x-18.txt>                            Microsoft
30 April 2002                                               Andrew Smith
                                                        Allegro Networks
                                                               Glen Zorn
                                                           Cisco Systems
                                                              John Roese
                                                               Enterasys


                  IEEE 802.1X RADIUS Usage Guidelines

This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all
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Abstract

IEEE 802.1X enables authenticated access to IEEE 802 media, including
Ethernet, Token Ring, and 802.11 wireless LANs.  Although RADIUS support
is optional within IEEE 802.1X, it is expected that many IEEE 802.1X
Authenticators will function as RADIUS clients.

This document provides suggestions on RADIUS usage by IEEE 802.1X
Authenticators. An earlier version of this specification is included in
a non-normative Appendix of the IEEE 802.1X specification. It is
currently being revised within IEEE 802.1aa and is being presented to
the IETF for informational purposes.



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Table of Contents

1.     Introduction ..........................................    4
   1.1       Terminology .....................................    4
   1.2       Requirements language ...........................    5
2.     RADIUS accounting attributes ..........................    5
   2.1       Acct-Terminate-Cause ............................    5
   2.2.      Acct-Multi-Session-Id ...........................    6
   2.3.      Acct-Link-Count .................................    7
3.     RADIUS authentication .................................    8
   3.1       User-Name .......................................    8
   3.2       User-Password, CHAP-Password, CHAP-Challenge ....    9
   3.3       NAS-IP-Address, NAS-IPv6-Address ................    9
   3.4       NAS-Port ........................................    9
   3.5       Service-Type ....................................    9
   3.6       Framed-Protocol .................................    9
   3.7       Framed-IP-Address, Framed-IP-Netmask ............   10
   3.8       Framed-Routing ..................................   10
   3.9       Filter-ID .......................................   10
  3.10       Framed-MTU ......................................   10
  3.11       Framed-Compression ..............................   11
  3.12       Displayable messages ............................   11
  3.13       Callback-Number, Callback-ID ....................   11
  3.14       Framed-Route, Framed-IPv6-Route .................   11
  3.15       State, Class, Proxy-State .......................   11
  3.16       Vendor-Specific .................................   11
  3.17       Session-Timeout .................................   12
  3.18       Idle-Timeout ....................................   12
  3.19       Termination-Action ..............................   12
  3.20       Called-Station-Id ...............................   12
  3.21       Calling-Station-Id ..............................   13
  3.22       NAS-Identifier ..................................   13
  3.23       NAS-Port-Type ...................................   13
  3.24       Port-Limit ......................................   13
  3.25       Password-Retry ..................................   13
  3.26       Connect-Info ....................................   13
  3.27       EAP-Message .....................................   13
  3.28       Message-Authenticator ...........................   14
  3.29       NAS-Port-Id .....................................   14
  3.30       Framed-Pool, Framed-IPv6-Pool ...................   14
  3.31       Tunnel attributes ...............................   14










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4.     RC4 EAPOL-Key descriptor ..............................   16
5.     Security considerations ...............................   18
   5.1       Packet modification or forgery ..................   18
   5.2       Dictionary attacks ..............................   18
   5.3       Known plaintext attacks .........................   19
   5.4       Replay ..........................................   20
   5.5       Outcome mismatches ..............................   20
   5.6       802.11 integration ..............................   21
   5.7       Key management issues ...........................   21
6.     IANA considerations ...................................   23
7.     Normative references ..................................   23
8.     Informative references ................................   24
9.     Table of Attributes ...................................   26
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ..............................................   28
AUTHORS' ADDRESSES ...........................................   28
Intellectual Property Statement ..............................   29
Full Copyright Statement .....................................   30


































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1.  Introduction

IEEE 802.1X [IEEE8021X] provides "network port authentication" for IEEE
802 [IEEE802] media, including Ethernet [IEEE8023], Token Ring and
802.11 [IEEE80211] wireless LANS.

IEEE 802.1X does not require use of a backend authentication server, and
thus can be deployed with stand-alone switches or access points, as well
as in centrally managed scenarios.

In situations where it is desirable to centrally manage authentication,
authorization and accounting (AAA) for IEEE 802 networks, deployment of
a backend authentication and accounting server is desirable. In such
situations, it is expected that IEEE 802.1X Authenticators will function
as AAA clients.

This document provides suggestions on RADIUS usage by IEEE 802.1X
Authenticators. Support for any AAA protocol is optional for IEEE 802.1X
Authenticators, and therefore this specification has been incorporated
into a non-normative Appendix within the IEEE 802.1X specification.

This document is currently being revised as part of the IEEE 802.1aa
effort, and is being presented to the IETF for informational purposes.

1.1.  Terminology

This document uses the following terms:

Authenticator
          An Authenticator is an entity that require authentication from
          the Supplicant.  The Authenticator may be connected to the
          Supplicant at the other end of a point-to-point LAN segment or
          802.11 wireless link.

Authentication Server
          An Authentication Server is an entity that provides an
          Authentication Service to an Authenticator. This service
          verifies from the credentials provided by the Supplicant, the
          claim of identity made by the Supplicant.

Port Access Entity (PAE)
          The protocol entity associated with a physical or virtual
          (802.11) Port.  A given PAE may support the protocol
          functionality associated with the Authenticator, Supplicant or
          both.

Supplicant
          A Supplicant is an entity that is being authenticated by an



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          Authenticator. The Supplicant may be connected to the
          Authenticator at one end of a point-to-point LAN segment or
          802.11 wireless link.

1.2.  Requirements language

In this document, the key words "MAY", "MUST,  "MUST  NOT",  "OPTIONAL",
"RECOMMENDED",  "SHOULD",  and  "SHOULD  NOT",  are to be interpreted as
described in [RFC2119].

2.  RADIUS accounting attributes

With a few exceptions, the RADIUS accounting attributes defined in
[RFC2866] and [RFC2869] have the same meaning within IEEE 802.1X
sessions as they do in dialup sessions and therefore no additional
commentary is needed.

Attributes requiring more discussion include:

   Acct-Terminate-Cause
   Acct-Multi-Session-Id
   Acct-Link-Count

2.1.  Acct-Terminate-Cause

This attribute indicates how the session was terminated, as described in
[RFC2866]. [IEEE8021X] defines the following termination cause values,
which are shown with their RADIUS equivalents in the following table:

IEEE 802.1X                         RADIUS
dot1xAuthSessionTerminateCause      Acct-Terminate-Cause
Value                               Value
-------------                       --------------------
SupplicantLogoff(1)                 User Request (1)
portFailure(2)                      Lost Carrier (2)
SupplicantRestart(3)                Supplicant Restart (19)
reauthFailed(4)                     Reauthentication Failure (20)
authControlForceUnauth(5)           Admin Reset (6)
portReInit(6)                       Port Reinitialized (21)
portAdminDisabled(7)                Port Administratively Disabled (22)
notTerminatedYet(999)               N/A

When using this attribute, the User Request (1) termination cause
corresponds to the situation in which the session terminated due to an
EAPOL-Logoff received from the Supplicant.  When a session is moved due
to roaming, the EAPOL state machines will treat this as a Supplicant
Logoff.




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A Lost Carrier (2) termination cause indicates session termination due
to loss of physical connectivity for reasons other than roaming. For
example, if the Supplicant disconnects a point-to-point LAN connection,
or moves out of range of an 802.11 Access Point, this termination cause
is used.  Lost Carrier (2) therefore equates to a Port Disabled
condition in the EAPOL state machines.

A Supplicant Restart (19) termination cause indicates re-initialization
of the Supplicant state machines.

A Reauthentication Failure (20) termination cause indicates that a
previously authenticated Supplicant has failed to re-authenticate
successfully following expiry of the reauthentication timer or explicit
reauthentication request by management action.

Within [IEEE80211], periodic re-authentication may be useful in
preventing reuse of  an initialization vector with a given key.  Since
successful re-authentication does not result in termination of the
session, accounting packets are not sent as a result of re-
authentication unless the status of the session changes. For example:

a.   The session is terminated due to re-authentication failure. In this
     case the Reauthentication Failure (20) termination cause is used.

b.   The authorizations are changed as a result of a successful re-
     authentication.  In this case, the Service Unavailable (15)
     termination cause is used. For accounting purposes, the portion of
     the session after the authorization change is treated as a separate
     session.

Where IEEE 802.1X authentication occurs prior to 802.11 association,
accounting packets are not sent until an association occurs.

An Admin Reset(6) termination cause indicates that the Port has been
administratively forced into the unauthorized state.

A Port Reinitialized (21) termination cause indicates that the Port's
MAC has been reinitialized.

A Port Administratively Disabled (22) termination cause indicates that
the Port has been administratively disabled.

2.2.  Acct-Multi-Session-Id

The purpose of this attribute is to make it possible to link together
multiple related sessions. While IEEE 802.1X does not act on aggregated
ports, it is possible for a Supplicant roaming between IEEE 802.11
Access Points to cause multiple RADIUS accounting packets to be sent by



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different Access Points.

Where supported by the Access Points, the Acct-Multi-Session-Id
attribute can be used to link together the multiple related sessions of
a roaming Supplicant.  In such a situation, if the session context is
transferred between access points, accounting packets MAY be sent
without a corresponding authentication and authorization exchange,
provided that an association has occurred.  However, in such a situation
it is assumed that the Acct-Multi-Session-Id is transferred between the
Access Points as part of the Inter-Access Point Protocol.

If Acct-Multi-Session-Id were not unique between Access Points, then it
is possible that the chosen Acct-Multi-Session-Id might overlap with an
existing value allocated on that Access Point and the Accounting Server
would therefore be unable to distinguish a roaming session from a multi-
link session.

As a result, the Acct-Multi-Session-Id attribute is unique among all the
Access Points, Supplicants and sessions. In order to provide this
uniqueness, it is suggested that the Acct-Multi-Session-Id be of the
form:

Original Access-Point MAC Address | Supplicant MAC Address | NTP Timestamp

Here the original Access-Point MAC Address is the MAC address of the
Access Point at which the session started, and the 64-bit NTP timestamp
indicates the beginning of the original session. In order to provide for
consistency of the Acct-Multi-Session-Id between 802.11 roaming
sessions, the multi-session-id may be moved between Access Points as
part of an inter-access point protocol.

The use of Acct-Multi-Session-Id of this form guarantees uniqueness
among all Access Points, Supplicants and sessions. Since the NTP
timestamp does not wrap on reboot, there is no possibility that a
rebooted Access Point could choose an Acct-Multi-Session-Id that could
be confused with that of a previous session.

Since the Acct-Multi-Session-Id is of type String as defined in
[RFC2866], for use with IEEE 802.1X, it is encoded as an ASCII string of
Hex digits.  Example: "00-10-A4-23-19-C0 00-12-B2-14-23-DE
AF2383C076B844E8"

2.3.  Acct-Link-Count

Since IEEE 802.1X does not act on aggregated ports, there is no
equivalent to PPP multi-link bundles, and this attribute is not useful
for IEEE 802.1X Authenticators.




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3.  RADIUS authentication

The following attributes defined in
[RFC2865],[RFC2866],[RFC2867],[RFC2868],[RFC2869] and [RFC3162] appear
most relevant for use in IEEE 802.1X authentication:

   User-Name
   NAS-IP-Address, NAS-IPv6-Address
   NAS-Port
   Service-Type
   Framed-Routing
   Filter-Id
   Framed-MTU
   Reply-Message
   Framed-Route, Framed-IPv6-Route
   State
   Class
   Vendor-Specific
   Session-Timeout
   Idle-Timeout
   Termination-Action
   Called-Station-ID
   Calling-Station-ID
   NAS-Identifier
   Proxy-State
   NAS-Port-Type
   Password-Retry
   Connect-Info
   EAP-Message
   Message-Authenticator
   NAS-Port-Id
   Framed-Pool, Framed-IPv6-Pool
   Tunnel-attributes

3.1.  User-Name

In IEEE 802.1X, the Supplicant typically provides its identity via an
EAP-Response/Identity message.  Where available, the Supplicant identity
is included in the User-Name attribute, and included in the RADIUS
Access-Request and Access-Reply messages as specified in [RFC2865] and
[RFC2869].

Alternatively, where Service-Type=Call Check, the User-Name attribute
contains the Calling-Station-ID value, which is set to the Supplicant
MAC address.






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3.2.  User-Password, CHAP-Password, CHAP-Challenge

Since IEEE 802.1X does not support PAP or CHAP authentication, the User-
Password, CHAP-Password or CHAP-Challenge attributes are not used by
IEEE 802.1X Authenticators acting as RADIUS clients.

3.3.  NAS-IP-Address, NAS-IPv6-Address

For use with IEEE 802.1X, the NAS-IP-Address contains the IPv4 address
of the bridge or Access Point acting as an Authenticator, and the NAS-
IPv6-Address contains the IPv6 address. If the IEEE 802.1X Authenticator
has more than one interface, it may be desirable to use a loopback
address for this purpose so that the Authenticator will still be
reachable even if one of the interfaces were to fail.

3.4.  NAS-Port

For use with IEEE 802.1X the NAS-Port will contain the port number of
the bridge, if this is available.  While an 802.11 Access Point does not
have physical ports, it does assign a unique "association ID" to every
mobile station upon a successful association exchange. As a result, for
an 802.11 Access Point, the NAS-Port attribute will contain the
association ID, which is a 16-bit unsigned integer.  Where IEEE 802.1X
authentication occurs prior to association, the association ID may not
yet be known, and so may not be included.

3.5.  Service-Type

For use with IEEE 802.1X, only the Framed (2), Authenticate Only (8),
and Call Check (10) values have meaning.

A Service-Type of Framed indicates that appropriate 802 framing should
be used for the connection. A Service-Type of Authenticate Only (8)
indicates that no authorization information needs to be returned in the
Access-Accept. As described in [RFC2865], a Service-Type of Call Check
is included in an Access-Request packet to request that the RADIUS
server accept or reject the connection attempt, typically based on the
Called-Station-ID (set to the bridge or Access Point MAC address) or
Calling-Station-ID attributes (set to the Supplicant MAC address). As
noted in [RFC2865] it is recommended that in this case the User-Name
attribute be given the value of Calling-Station-Id.

3.6.  Framed-Protocol

Since there is no value for 802 media, the Framed-Protocol attribute is
not used by IEEE 802.1X Authenticators.





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3.7.  Framed-IP-Address, Framed-IP-Netmask

Since IEEE 802.1X does not provide a mechanism for IP address
assignment, the Framed-IP-Address and Framed-IP-Netmask attributes are
not used by IEEE 802.1X Authenticators.

3.8.  Framed-Routing

The Framed-Routing attribute indicates the routing method for the
Supplicant. It is therefore only relevant for IEEE 802.1X Authenticators
that act as layer 3 devices, and cannot be used by a bridge or Access
Point.

3.9.  Filter-ID

This attribute indicates the name of the filter list for the Supplicant.
For use with an IEEE 802.1X Authenticator, it may be used to indicate
either layer 2 or layer 3 filters.

3.10.  Framed-MTU

This attribute indicates the maximum size of an IP packet that may be
transmitted over the wire between the Supplicant and the Authenticator.
IEEE 802.1X Authenticators set this to the value corresponding to the
relevant 802 medium, and include it in the RADIUS Access-Request. For
EAP over IEEE 802 media, the Framed-MTU values (which do not include
LLC/SNAP overhead) and maximum frame length values (not including the
preamble) are as follows:

                                     Maximum Frame
Media             Framed-MTU            Length
=========        ===============     ==============
Ethernet              1500              1522
802.3                 1500              1522
802.4                 8174              8193
802.5 (4 Mbps)        4528              4550
802.5 (16 Mbps)      18173             18200
802.5 (100 Mb/s)     18173             18200
802.6                 9191              9240
802.9a                1500              1518
802.11                2304              2346
802.12 (Ethernet)     1500              1518
802.12 (Token Ring)   4502              4528
FDDI                  4479              4500







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3.11.  Framed-Compression

IEEE 802.1X does not include compression support so that this attribute
is not understood by 802.1X Authenticators.

3.12.  Displayable messages

The Reply-Message attribute, defined in section 5.18 of [RFC2865],
indicates text which MAY be displayed to the user. This is similar in
purpose to the EAP-Request/Notification, defined in [RFC2284].  When
replying to an IEEE 802.1X Authenticator, the RADIUS server SHOULD
encapsulate displayable messages within EAP-Message/EAP-
Request/Notification attribute(s), and SHOULD NOT use Reply-Message
attribute(s) for this purpose.  An IEEE 802.1X Authenticator receiving
Reply-Message attribute(s) MAY copy the Text field(s) into the Type-Data
field of an EAP-Request/Notification packet, fill in the Identifier
field, and send this to the Peer. As a result, a RADIUS server sending
Reply-Message attribute(s) to an IEEE 802.1X Authenticator MUST be
prepared to receive an ensuing Access-Request with an EAP-Message/EAP-
Response/Notification attribute containing an Identifier value that does
not match that of the previous EAP-Message/EAP-Request.

3.13.  Callback-Number, Callback-ID

These attributes are not understood by IEEE 802.1X Authenticators.

3.14.  Framed-Route, Framed-IPv6-Route

The Framed-Route and Framed-IPv6-Route attributes provide routes that
are to be configured for the Supplicant. These attributes are therefore
only relevant for IEEE 802.1X Authenticators that act as layer 3
devices, and cannot be understood by a bridge or Access Point.

3.15.  State, Class, Proxy-State

These attributes are used for the same purposes as described in
[RFC2865].

3.16.  Vendor-Specific

Vendor-specific attributes are used for the same purposes as described
in [RFC2865].  The MS-MPPE-Send-Key and MS-MPPE-Recv-Key attributes,
described in section 2.4 of [RFC2548], MAY be used to encrypt and
authenticate the RC4 EAPOL-Key descriptor [IEEE8021X, Section 7.6].
Details of the EAPOL-Key descriptor are provided in Section 4.






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3.17.  Session-Timeout

When sent along in an Access-Accept without a Termination-Action
attribute or with a Termination-Action attribute set to Default, the
Session-Timeout attribute specifies the maximum number of seconds of
service provided prior to session termination.

When sent in an Access-Accept along with a Termination-Action value of
RADIUS-Request, the Session-Timeout attribute specifies the maximum
number of seconds of service provided prior to re-authentication. In
this case, the Session-Timeout attribute is used to load the
reAuthPeriod constant within the Reauthentication Timer state machine of
802.1X. When sent with a Termination-Action value of RADIUS-Request, a
Session-Timeout value of zero indicates the desire to perform another
authentication (possibly of a different type) immediately after the
first authentication has successfully completed.

As described in [RFC2869], when sent in an Access-Challenge, this
attribute represents the maximum number of seconds that an IEEE 802.1X
Authenticator should wait for an EAP-Response before retransmitting.  In
this case, the Session-Timeout attribute is used to load the suppTimeout
constant within the Backend state machine of IEEE 802.1X.

3.18.  Idle-Timeout

The Idle-Timeout attribute is described in [RFC2865]. For IEEE 802 media
other than 802.11 the media are always on. As a result the Idle-Timeout
attribute is typically only used with IEEE 802.11. It is possible for an
802.11 device to wander out of  range of all access points. In this
case, the Idle-Timeout attribute indicates the maximum time that an
802.11 device may remain idle.

3.19.  Termination-Action

This attribute indicates what action should be taken when the service is
completed. The value RADIUS-Request(1) indicates that re-authentication
should occur on expiration of the Session-Time.  The value Default (0)
indicates that the session should terminate.

3.20.  Called-Station-Id

For IEEE 802.1X Authenticators, this attribute is used to store the
bridge or Access Point MAC address in ASCII format, with octet values
separated by a "-". Example: "00-10-A4-23-19-C0".  For 802.11 Access
Points, where the 802.11 SSID is known during IEEE 802.1X
authentication, it SHOULD be appended to the Access Point MAC address,
separated from the MAC address with a ":". Example
"00-10-A4-23-19-C0:AP1". Note that since the SSID is included in the



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association-request, where IEEE 802.1X authentication occurs prior to
association, the selected SSID may not be known.

3.21.  Calling-Station-Id

For IEEE 802.1X Authenticators, this attribute is used to store the
Supplicant MAC address in ASCII format, with octet values separated by a
"-". Example: "00-10-A4-23-19-C0".

3.22.  NAS-Identifier

This attribute contains a string identifying the IEEE 802.1X
Authenticator originating the Access-Request.

3.23.  NAS-Port-Type

For use with IEEE 802.1X, NAS-Port-Type values of Ethernet (15) Wireless
- IEEE 802.11 (19), Token Ring (20) and FDDI (21) may be used.

3.24.  Port-Limit

This attribute has no meaning when sent to an IEEE 802.1X Authenticator.

3.25.  Password-Retry

In IEEE 802.1X, the Authenticator always transitions to the HELD state
after an authentication failure. Thus this attribute does not make sense
for IEEE 802.1X.

3.26.  Connect-Info

This attribute is sent by a bridge or Access Point to indicate the
nature of the Supplicant's connection. When sent in the Access-Request
it is recommended that this attribute contain information on the speed
of the Supplicant's connection. For 802.11, the following format is
recommended: "CONNECT 11Mbps 802.11b". If sent in the Accounting STOP,
this attribute may be used to summarize statistics relating to session
quality. For example, in IEEE 802.11, the Connect-Info attribute may
contain  information on the number of link layer retransmissions. The
exact format of this attribute is implementation specific.

3.27.  EAP-Message

Since IEEE 802.1X provides for encapsulation of EAP as described in
[RFC2284] and [IEEE8021X], the EAP-Message attribute defined in
[RFC2869] is used to encapsulate EAP packets for transmission from the
IEEE 802.1X Authenticator to the Authentication Server.




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3.28.  Message-Authenticator

As noted in [RFC2869], the Message-Authenticator attribute MUST be used
to protect all packets containing an EAP-Message attribute.

3.29.  NAS-Port-Id

This attribute is used to identify the IEEE 802.1X Authenticator port
which authenticates the Supplicant.  The NAS-Port-Id differs from the
NAS-Port in that it is a string of variable length whereas the NAS-Port
is a 4 octet value.

3.30.  Framed-Pool, Framed-IPv6-Pool

Since IEEE 802.1X does not support address assignment, these attributes
have no meaning to IEEE 802.1X Authenticators.

3.31.  Tunnel attributes

Reference [RFC2868] defines RADIUS tunnel attributes used for
authentication and authorization, and [RFC2867] defines tunnel
attributes used for accounting. Where the IEEE 802.1X Authenticator
supports tunneling, a compulsory tunnel may be set up for the Supplicant
as a result of the authentication.

In particular, it may be desirable to allow a port to be placed into a
particular Virtual LAN (VLAN), defined in [IEEE8021Q], based on the
result of the authentication. This can be used, for example, to allow a
wireless host to remain on the same VLAN as it moves within a campus
network.

The RADIUS server typically indicates the desired VLAN by including
tunnel attributes within the Access-Accept. However, the IEEE 802.1X
Authenticator may also provide a hint as to the VLAN to be assigned to
the Supplicant by including Tunnel attributes within the Access-Request.

For use in VLAN assignment, the following tunnel attributes are sent:

Tunnel-Type=VLAN (13)
Tunnel-Medium-Type=802
Tunnel-Private-Group-ID=VLANID

Note that the VLANID is 12-bits, taking a value between 0 and 4095,
inclusive. Since the Tunnel-Private-Group-ID is of type String as
defined in [RFC2868], for use with IEEE 802.1X, the VLANID is encoded as
a string, rather than an integer.





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When Tunnel attributes are sent, it is necessary to fill in the Tag
field. As noted in [RFC2868], section 3.1:

   The Tag field is one octet in length and is intended to provide a
   means of grouping attributes in the same packet which refer to the
   same tunnel.  Valid values for this field are 0x01 through 0x1F,
   inclusive.  If the Tag field is unused, it MUST be zero (0x00).

For use with Tunnel-Client-Endpoint, Tunnel-Server-Endpoint, Tunnel-
Private-Group-ID, Tunnel-Assignment-ID, Tunnel-Client-Auth-ID or Tunnel-
Server-Auth-ID attributes (but not Tunnel-Type, Tunnel-Medium-Type,
Tunnel-Password, or Tunnel-Preference), a tag field of greater than 0x1F
is interpreted as the first octet of the following field.

Unless alternative tunnel types are provided, (e.g. for IEEE 802.1X
Authenticators that may support tunneling but not VLANs), it is only
necessary for tunnel attributes to specify a single tunnel. As a result
where it is only desired to specify the VLANID, the tag field SHOULD be
set to zero (0x00) in all Tunnel attributes. Where alternative tunnel
types are to be provided, tag values between 0x01 and 0x1F SHOULD be
chosen.






























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4.  RC4 EAPOL-Key descriptor

The RC4 EAPOL-Key descriptor is defined as follows:

 0                   1                   2                   3
 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|    Version    |  Packet Type  |  Packet Body Length           |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|     Type      |          Key  Length          |Replay Counter...
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                             Replay Counter...
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                             Replay Counter    |   Key IV...
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                             Key IV...
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                             Key IV...
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                             Key IV...
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                             Key IV...         |F| Key Index   |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                             Key Signature...
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                             Key Signature...
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                             Key Signature...
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                             Key Signature...
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                             Key...
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Version
   The Version field is one octet. For [IEEE8021X] it contains the value
   0x01.

Packet Type

   The Packet Type field is one octet, and determines the type of packet
   being transmitted. For an EAPOL-Key Descriptor, the Packet Type field
   contains 0x03.

Packet Body Length

   The Packet Body Length is two octets, and contains the length of the
   EAPOL-Key descriptor in octets, not including the Version, Packet



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   Type and Packet Body Length fields.

Type

   The Type field is a single octet. The Key descriptor is defined
   differently for each Type; this specification documents only the RC4
   Key Descriptor (Type = 0x01).

Key Length

   The Key Length field is two octets. If Packet Body Length = 44 + Key
   Length, then the Key Field contains the key in encrypted form, of
   length Key Length. This is 5 octets (40 bits) for WEP, and 13 octets
   (104 bits) for WEP-128. If Packet Body Length = 44, then the Key
   field is absent, and Key Length represents the number of least
   significant octets from the MS-MPPE-Send-Key attribute to be used as
   the keying material.

Replay Counter

   The Replay Counter field is 8 octets. It does not repeat within the
   life of the keying material used to encrypt the Key field and compute
   the Key Signature field. A 64-bit NTP timestamp MAY be used as the
   Replay Counter.

Key IV

   The Key IV field is 16 octets and includes a 128-bit
   cryptographically random number.

F

   The Key flag (F) is a single bit, describing the type of key
   that is included in the Key field. Values are:

   0 = for broadcast (default key)
   1 = for unicast (key mapping key)

Key Index

   The Key Index is 7 bits.

Key Signature

   The Key Signature field is 16 octets. It contains an HMAC-MD5 message
   integrity check computed over the EAPOL-Key descriptor, starting from
   the Type field (e.g. skipping the Version, Packet Type and Packet
   Body Length fields) with the Key field filled in if present, but with



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   the Key Signature field set to zero.  For the computation,  the 32
   octet (256 bit) MS-MPPE-Send-Key is used as the HMAC-MD5 key.

Key

   If Packet Body Length = 44 + Key Length, then the Key Field contains
   the key in encrypted form, of length Key Length.  If Packet Body
   Length = 44, then the Key field is absent, and the least significant
   Key Length octets from the MS-MPPE-Send-Key attribute is used as the
   keying material.  Where the Key field is encrypted using RC4, the RC4
   encryption key used to encrypt this field is formed by concatenating
   the 16 octet (128 bit) Key-IV field with the 32 octet MS-MPPE-Recv-
   Key attribute. This yields a 48 octet RC4 key (384 bits).

5.  Security considerations

Since this document describes the use of RADIUS for purposes of
authentication, authorization, and accounting in IEEE 802.1X-enabled
networks, it is vulnerable to all of the threats that are present in
other RADIUS applications. For a discussion of these threats, see
[RFC2607], [RFC2865], and [RFC2869].

Vulnerabilities include:

Packet modification or forgery
Dictionary attacks
Known plaintext attacks
Replay
Outcome mismatches
802.11 integration
Key management issues

5.1.  Packet modification or forgery

RADIUS, defined in [RFC2865], does not require Access-Requests to be
authenticated or integrity protected. However, IEEE 802.1X is based on
EAP and does not support PAP or CHAP authentication.  As a result, when
used with IEEE 802.1X, all RADIUS packets are authenticated and
integrity protected. As described in [RFC2869]:

   The Message-Authenticator attribute MUST be used to protect all
   Access-Request, Access-Challenge, Access-Accept, and Access-Reject
   packets containing an EAP-Message attribute.

5.2.  Dictionary attacks

The RADIUS shared secret is vulnerable to offline dictionary attack,
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attribute.  As noted in [RFC2865]:

   The secret (password shared between the client and the RADIUS server)
   SHOULD be at least as large and unguessable as a well- chosen
   password.  It is preferred that the secret be at least 16 octets.

The risk of shared secret compromise can be mitigated in part by
employing IPsec ESP with non-null transform in order to encrypt the
RADIUS conversation, as described in [RFC3162].

5.3.  Known plaintext attacks

Since IEEE 802.1X is based on EAP and does not support PAP or CHAP
authentication, the RADIUS User-Password hiding mechanism is not
utilized to hide user passwords. This mechanism uses MD5, defined in
[RFC1321];  as noted in [MD5Attack], there are doubts about the security
of this mechanism.

Even though IEEE 802.1X Authenticators do not support User-Password
hiding, a security vulnerability can still exist where the same RADIUS
shared secret is used on an IEEE 802.1X Authenticator and a NAS
supporting PAP. The threat can be mitigated by protecting RADIUS with
IPsec ESP with non-null transform, as described in [RFC3162].

The RADIUS User-Password hiding mechanism uses MD5, defined in
[RFC1321], in order to generate a key stream based on the RADIUS Shared
secret and Request  Authenticator.  Where PAP is in use, it is possible
to collect key streams corresponding to a given Request Authenticator
value, by capturing RADIUS conversations corresponding to a PAP
authentication attempt using a known password. If the Request
Authenticator repeats, attributes hidden with the resulting key stream
should be considered compromised, since the keystream may be known by an
attacker.

Hidden attributes such as the Tunnel-Password [RFC2868, section 3.5] and
MS-MPPE-Send-Key and MS-MPPE-Recv-Key attributes [RFC2548, section 2.4],
include a Salt field as part of the hiding algorithm. However, where the
same RADIUS shared secret is used on IEEE 802.1X Authenticators and
NASes supporting PAP, and where the Request Authenticator repeats, the
Salt does not provide additional protection.

This is because MD5 [RFC1321], rather than HMAC-MD5 [RFC2104], is used
to generate the key stream, calculated from the 128-bit RADIUS shared
secret (S), the  128-bit Request Authenticator (R), and the Salt field
(A), via the formula b(1) = MD5(S + R + A). Since the Salt field is
placed at the end, if the Request Authenticator were to repeat on a
network where PAP is in use, then the salted keystream could be
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calculation based on the Salt field (A) which is sent in the clear.

To protect against this, [RFC2865] recommends that:

   Since it is expected that the same secret MAY be used to authenticate
   with servers in disparate geographic regions, the Request
   Authenticator field SHOULD exhibit global and temporal uniqueness.

5.4.  Replay

The RADIUS protocol provides only limited support for replay protection.
Replay protection for both RADIUS authentication and accounting
exchanges can be provided by using IPsec replay protection with RADIUS,
as described in [RFC3162].

RADIUS Access-Requests include liveness via the 128-bit Request
Authenticator.  However, the Request Authenticator is not a replay
counter. Since RADIUS servers may not maintain a cache of previous
Request Authenticators, the Request Authenticator does not provide
replay protection.  Since the Accounting Response Authenticator depends
in part on the Accounting Request Authenticator, it is not possible to
replay an Accounting-Response unless the Request Authenticator repeats.
While it is possible to utilize EAP methods such as EAP TLS [RFC2716]
which include liveness checks on both sides, not all EAP messages will
include liveness so that this provides incomplete protection.

RADIUS accounting [RFC2866] does not support liveness or replay
protection within the protocol. Due to the need to support failover
between RADIUS accounting servers, protocol-based replay protection is
not sufficient to prevent duplicate accounting records.  However, once
accepted by the accounting server, duplicate accounting records can be
detected by use of the the Acct-Session-Id [RFC2866, section 5.5] and
Event-Timestamp [RFC2869, section 5.3] attributes.

Unlike RADIUS authentication, RADIUS accounting does not use the Request
Authenticator as a nonce. Instead, the Acct-Session-Id [RFC2866, section
5.5] and Event-Timestamp [RFC2869, section 5.3] attributes provide
liveness. As with the Request Authenticator, it is best if the Acct-
Session-Id is globally and temporally unique, to protect against reuse
of RADIUS shared secrets by multiple NASes.

5.5.  Outcome mismatches

[RFC2869] does not require that the EAP packet encapsulated in an EAP-
Message attribute agree with the outcome of the authentication, or even
that an EAP-Message attribute be included in an Access-Accept or Access-
Reject. For example, an EAP-Success can be encapsulated in an Access-
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Neither message should be encapsulated in an Access-Challenge because as
described in [RFC2284], EAP-Success and EAP-Failure messages are not
ACK'd. Since an Access-Challenge indicates a continuing EAP conversation
and no client response is expected to these messages, encapsulating
these messages within an Access-Challenge would constitute a
contradiction.

To address the possible corner conditions and ensure that access
decisions made by IEEE 802.1X Authenticators conform to the wishes of
the RADIUS server, it is necessary for the Authenticator to make the
decision solely based on the authentication result (Accept/Reject) and
NOT based on the contents of the EAP packet encapsulated in one or more
EAP-Message attributes, if one is present at all.

5.6.  802.11 integration

[IEEE8021X] was developed for use on wired IEEE 802 networks such as
Ethernet, and therefore does not describe how to securely adapt IEEE
802.1X for use with 802.11. This is left to the enhanced security
specification under development within IEEE 802.11.

For example, [IEEE8021X] does not specify whether authentication occurs
prior to, or after, association, nor how the derived keys can be used to
integrity protect management frames. It also does not specify
ciphersuites addressing the vulnerabilities discovered in WEP, described
in [Berkeley], [Arbaugh], and [Fluhrer].  [IEEE8021X] only defines an
authentication framework, leaving the definition of the authentication
methods to other documents.

Since [IEEE8021X] does not address 802.11 security vulnerabilities,
implementors are strongly advised to consult the IEEE 802.11 enhanced
security specification for guidance on how to adapt IEEE 802.1X for use
with 802.11.  For example, it is likely that the IEEE 802.11 enhanced
security specification will define an IEEE 802.11 key hierarchy as well
as defining its own EAPOL-Key descriptors.

5.7.  Key management issues

The EAPOL-Key descriptor described in section 4 is likely to be
deprecated in the future, when the 802.11 enhanced security group
completes its work. It has inherent security issues when applied to
802.11 networks, and MUST NOT be used on 802.11 networks desiring
enhanced security (e.g. networks implementing ciphers other than WEP).
Problems include:

[1]  Support for key-mapping keys. IEEE 802.1X enables the derivation of
     per-station unicast keys, known in [IEEE80211] as "key mapping
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     as "default keys". However, in some 802.11 implementations, the
     unicast keys derived as part of the EAP authentication process are
     used solely in order to encrypt, authenticate and integrity protect
     the EAPOL-Key descriptor, as described in Section 4. These
     implementations only support use of default keys (ordinarily only
     used with multicast/broadcast traffic) to secure all traffic,
     unicast or multicast/broadcast.

     Such implementations are inherently defective from a security point
     of view.  Since there is no support for per-station key-mapping
     keys (e.g. unicast keys), any station possessing the default key
     can decrypt traffic from other stations or impersonate them.  When
     used with a defective cipher (e.g. WEP), default key-only
     implementations provide more material for an attacker. Where the
     default key is not refreshed periodically, the implementation is
     susceptible to all the vulnerabilities inherent in the defective
     cipher.  For an understanding of the issues with WEP, see
     [Berkeley], [Arbaugh], [Fluhrer], and [Stubbl].

[2]  Reuse of keying material. When utilized to provide keying material
     for the WEP ciphersuite, the same keying material (MS-MPPE-Recv-
     Key) is used both to encrypt the Key field within the EAPOL-Key
     descriptor, as well as to encrypt data passed between the station
     and access point using WEP. Multi-purpose keying material is
     frowned upon, since multiple uses can leak information helpful to
     an attacker.

[3]  WEP vulnerabilities. The algorithm used to encrypt the Key field
     within the EAPOL-Key descriptor is similar to the algorithm used in
     WEP, and therefore shares many of the same vulnerabilities. For
     example, the IV and key are concatenated rather than being combined
     within a mixing function, thereby making it much easier to obtain
     the key. Also, as with WEP, the IV is not a counter, and therefore
     there is no protection against reuse of the same IV value, thereby
     compromising the key stream.

As a result of these vulnerabilities, implementors intending to use the
EAPOL-Key descriptor described in this document are urged to consult the
802.11 enhanced security specification for a more secure alternative.
It is also advisable to consult the evolving literature on WEP
vulnerabilities, in order to better understand the risks, as well as to
obtain guidance on setting an appropriate re-keying interval.









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6.  IANA Considerations

This specification does not create any RADIUS attributes nor any new
number spaces for IANA administration. However, it does require
assignment of new values to existing RADIUS attributes. These include:

Attribute              Values Required
=========              ===============
NAS-Port-Type          Token-Ring (20), FDDI (21)
Tunnel-Type            VLAN (13)
Acct-Terminate-Cause   Supplicant Restart (19)
                       Reauthentication Failure (20)
                       Port Reinitialized (21)
                       Port Administratively Disabled (22)

7.  Normative references

[RFC1321]      Rivest, R., Dusse, S., "The MD5 Message-Digest
               Algorithm", RFC 1321, April 1992.

[RFC2119]      Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
               Requirement Levels", RFC 2119, March, 1997.

[RFC2284]      Blunk, L., Vollbrecht, J., "PPP Extensible Authentication
               Protocol (EAP)", RFC 2284, March 1998.

[RFC2865]      Rigney, C., Rubens, A., Simpson, W., Willens, S.,
               "Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)",
               RFC 2865, June 2000.

[RFC2866]      Rigney, C., "RADIUS Accounting", RFC 2866, June 2000.

[RFC2867]      Zorn, G., Mitton, D., Aboba, B., "RADIUS Accounting
               Modifications for Tunnel Protocol Support", RFC 2867,
               June 2000.

[RFC2868]      Zorn, G., Leifer, D., Rubens, A., Shriver, J., Holdrege,
               M., Goyret, I., "RADIUS Attributes for Tunnel Protocol
               Support", RFC 2868, June 2000.

[RFC2869]      Rigney, C., Willats, W., Calhoun, P., "RADIUS
               Extensions", RFC 2869, June 2000.

[RFC3162]      Aboba, B., Zorn, G., Mitton, D.,"RADIUS and IPv6", RFC
               3162, August 2001.

[IEEE8021X]    IEEE Standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks:
               Port based Network Access Control, IEEE Std 802.1X-2001,



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               June 2001.

8.  Informative references

[RFC2104]      Krawczyk, H., Bellare, M., Canetti, R.,"HMAC: Keyed-
               Hashing for Message Authentication", RFC 2104, February
               1997

[RFC2434]      Alvestrand, H. and T. Narten, "Guidelines for Writing an
               IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 2434,
               October 1998.

[RFC2548]      Zorn, G., "Microsoft Vendor-specific RADIUS Attributes",
               RFC 2548, March 1999.

[RFC2607]      Aboba, B., Vollbrecht, J., "Proxy Chaining and Policy
               Implementation in Roaming", RFC 2607, June 1999.

[MD5Attack]    Dobbertin, H., "The Status of MD5 After a Recent Attack."
               CryptoBytes Vol.2 No.2, Summer 1996.

[IEEE802]      IEEE Standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks:
               Overview and Architecture, ANSI/IEEE Std 802, 1990.

[IEEE8021Q]    IEEE Standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks:
               Draft Standard for Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks,
               P802.1Q, January 1998.

[IEEE8023]     ISO/IEC 8802-3 Information technology -
               Telecommunications and information exchange between
               systems - Local and metropolitan area networks - Common
               specifications - Part 3:  Carrier Sense Multiple Access
               with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and
               Physical Layer Specifications, (also ANSI/IEEE Std 802.3-
               1996), 1996.

[IEEE80211]    Information technology - Telecommunications and
               information exchange between systems - Local and
               metropolitan area networks - Specific Requirements Part
               11:  Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and
               Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications, IEEE Std.
               802.11-1999, 1999.

[Berkeley]     Borisov, N., Goldberg, I., Wagner, D., "Intercepting
               Mobile Communications: The Insecurity of 802.11", ACM
               SIGMOBILE, Seventh Annual International Conference on
               Mobile Computing and Networking, July 2001, Rome, Italy.




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[Arbaugh]      Arbaugh, W., Shankar, N., Wan, J.Y.C., "Your 802.11
               Wireless Network has No Clothes", Department of Computer
               Science, University of Maryland, College Park, March
               2001.

[Fluhrer]      Fluhrer, S., Mantin, I., Shamir, A., "Weaknesses in the
               Key Scheduling Algorithm of RC4", Eighth Annual Workshop
               on Selected Areas in Cryptography, Toronto, Canada,
               August 2001.

[Stubbl]       Stubblefield, A., Ioannidis, J., Rubin, A., "Using the
               Fluhrer, Mantin and Shamir Attack to Break WEP", 2002
               NDSS Conference.






































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9.  Table of Attributes

The following table provides a guide to which attributes MAY be sent and
received as part of IEEE 802.1X authentication.  L3 denotes attributes
that will be understood only by Authenticators implementing Layer 3
capabilities.  For each attribute, the reference provides the definitive
information on usage.

802.1X        #   Attribute
  X           1   User-Name [RFC2865]
              2   User-Password [RFC2865]
              3   CHAP-Password [RFC2865]
  X           4   NAS-IP-Address [RFC2865]
  X           5   NAS-Port [RFC2865]
  X           6   Service-Type [RFC2865]
              7   Framed-Protocol [RFC2865]
              8   Framed-IP-Address [RFC2865]
              9   Framed-IP-Netmask [RFC2865]
  L3         10   Framed-Routing [RFC2865]
  X          11   Filter-Id [RFC2865]
  X          12   Framed-MTU [RFC2865]
             13   Framed-Compression [RFC2865]
  L3         14   Login-IP-Host [RFC2865]
  L3         15   Login-Service [RFC2865]
  L3         16   Login-TCP-Port [RFC2865]
  ?          18   Reply-Message [RFC2865]
             19   Callback-Number [RFC2865]
             20   Callback-Id [RFC2865]
  L3         22   Framed-Route [RFC2865]
  L3         23   Framed-IPX-Network [RFC2865]
  X          24   State [RFC2865]
  X          25   Class [RFC2865]
  X          26   Vendor-Specific [RFC2865]
  X          27   Session-Timeout [RFC2865]
  X          28   Idle-Timeout [RFC2865]
  X          29   Termination-Action [RFC2865]
  X          30   Called-Station-Id [RFC2865]
  X          31   Calling-Station-Id [RFC2865]
  X          32   NAS-Identifier [RFC2865]
  X          33   Proxy-State [RFC2865]
             34   Login-LAT-Service [RFC2865]
             35   Login-LAT-Node [RFC2865]
             36   Login-LAT-Group [RFC2865]
802.1X        #   Attribute







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802.1X        #   Attribute
  L3         37   Framed-AppleTalk-Link [RFC2865]
  L3         38   Framed-AppleTalk-Network [RFC2865]
  L3         39   Framed-AppleTalk-Zone [RFC2865]
  X          40   Acct-Status-Type [RFC2866]
  X          41   Acct-Delay-Time [RFC2866]
  X          42   Acct-Input-Octets [RFC2866]
  X          43   Acct-Output-Octets [RFC2866]
  X          44   Acct-Session-Id [RFC2866]
  X          45   Acct-Authentic [RFC2866]
  X          46   Acct-Session-Time [RFC2866]
  X          47   Acct-Input-Packets [RFC2866]
  X          48   Acct-Output-Packets [RFC2866]
  X          49   Acct-Terminate-Cause [RFC2866]
  X          50   Acct-Multi-Session-Id [RFC2866]
             51   Acct-Link-Count [RFC2866]
  X          52   Acct-Input-Gigawords [RFC2869]
  X          53   Acct-Output-Gigawords [RFC2869]
  X          55   Event-Timestamp [RFC2869]
             60   CHAP-Challenge [RFC2865]
  X          61   NAS-Port-Type [RFC2865]
             62   Port-Limit [RFC2865]
             63   Login-LAT-Port [RFC2865]
  X          64   Tunnel-Type [RFC2868]
  X          65   Tunnel-Medium-Type [RFC2868]
  L3         66   Tunnel-Client-Endpoint [RFC2868]
  L3         67   Tunnel-Server-Endpoint [RFC2868]
  L3         68   Acct-Tunnel-Connection [RFC2867]
  L3         69   Tunnel-Password [RFC2868]
             70   ARAP-Password [RFC2869]
             71   ARAP-Features [RFC2869]
             72   ARAP-Zone-Access [RFC2869]
             73   ARAP-Security [RFC2869]
             74   ARAP-Security-Data [RFC2869]
             75   Password-Retry [RFC2869]
             76   Prompt [RFC2869]
  X          77   Connect-Info [RFC2869]
  X          78   Configuration-Token [RFC2869]
  X          79   EAP-Message [RFC2869]
  X          80   Message-Authenticator [RFC2869]
  X          81   Tunnel-Private-Group-ID [RFC2868]
  L3         82   Tunnel-Assignment-ID [RFC2868]
  X          83   Tunnel-Preference [RFC2868]
             84   ARAP-Challenge-Response [RFC2869]
802.1X        #   Attribute






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802.1X        #   Attribute
  X          85   Acct-Interim-Interval [RFC2869]
  X          86   Acct-Tunnel-Packets-Lost [RFC2867]
  X          87   NAS-Port-Id [RFC2869]
             88   Framed-Pool [RFC2869]
  L3         90   Tunnel-Client-Auth-ID [RFC2868]
  L3         91   Tunnel-Server-Auth-ID [RFC2868]
  X          95   NAS-IPv6-Address [RFC3162]
             96   Framed-Interface-Id [RFC3162]
  L3         97   Framed-IPv6-Prefix [RFC3162]
  L3         98   Login-IPv6-Host [RFC3162]
  L3         99   Framed-IPv6-Route [RFC3162]
  L3        100   Framed-IPv6-Pool [RFC3162]
802.1X        #   Attribute

Key
===

X         = May be used with IEEE 802.1X authentication
?         = Deprecated in favor of EAP-Message/EAP-Request/Notification
L3        = Implemented only by Authenticators with Layer 3
            capabilities

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to acknowledge Bob O'Hara of Informed Technology,
David Halasz of Cisco, Tim Moore, Sachin Seth and Ashwin Palekar of
Microsoft, Andrea Li, Albert Young and Dave Bagby of 3Com for
contributions to this document.

Authors' Addresses

Paul Congdon
Hewlett Packard Company
HP ProCurve Networking
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Roseville, CA  95747

Phone: +1 916 785 5753
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EMail: paul_congdon@hp.com

Bernard Aboba
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052

EMail: bernarda@microsoft.com



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