RADIUS Authentication

["Ferreira, André"]

If RADIUS receives and ACCESS-REQUEST packet, but RADIUS does not authenticate
against its own database but an external server, does it also send an ACCESS-REQUEST to the
external server?

And does the external server send and ACCESS-ACCEPT with REPLY_MESSAGE information
If authentication is successful?

Thanx.

André Ferreira

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[Alexandre Coninx]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2005, "Ferreira, André" wrote:
>    If RADIUS receives and ACCESS-REQUEST packet, but RADIUS does not
>    authenticate
>    against its own database but an external server, does it also send an
>    ACCESS-REQUEST to the
>    external server?

If your "external server" is a RADIUS server, yes it does. This is
called RADIUS proxying : the server acts as a client for another RADIUS
server.


>    And does the external server send and ACCESS-ACCEPT with REPLY_MESSAGE
>    information
>    If authentication is successful?

What your external server does and returns is up to its configuration.


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Alexandre Coninx
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