Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)
RFC 2865
Document | Type |
RFC - Draft Standard
(June 2000; Errata)
Obsoletes RFC 2138
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Authors | Allan Rubens , Carl Rigney , Steve Willens , William Simpson | ||
Last updated | 2020-01-21 | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized with errata bibtex | ||
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IESG | IESG state | RFC 2865 (Draft Standard) | |
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Network Working Group C. Rigney Request for Comments: 2865 S. Willens Obsoletes: 2138 Livingston Category: Standards Track A. Rubens Merit W. Simpson Daydreamer June 2000 Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) Status of this Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved. IESG Note: This protocol is widely implemented and used. Experience has shown that it can suffer degraded performance and lost data when used in large scale systems, in part because it does not include provisions for congestion control. Readers of this document may find it beneficial to track the progress of the IETF's AAA working group, which may develop a successor protocol that better addresses the scaling and congestion control issues. Abstract This document describes a protocol for carrying authentication, authorization, and configuration information between a Network Access Server which desires to authenticate its links and a shared Authentication Server. Implementation Note This memo documents the RADIUS protocol. The early deployment of RADIUS was done using UDP port number 1645, which conflicts with the "datametrics" service. The officially assigned port number for RADIUS is 1812. Rigney, et al. Standards Track [Page 1] 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 .................................... 43Show full document text