
RADIUS Overview
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Nortel Networks RADIUS Implementation
The following Nortel Networks platforms can operate as RADIUS clients:
• Access Node (AN*)
• Access Node Hub (ANH*)
• Access Stack Node (ASN*)
• Advanced Remote Node* (ARN*)
• Backbone Concentrator Node (BCN*)
• Backbone Link Node (BLN*)
• System 5000*
From one central location, RADIUS enables you to administer remote user
accounts through its full range of authentication and accounting services.
The remote users include:
• Routers with customized user profiles and routers from other vendors.
(RADIUS supports these routers by using vendor-specific attributes.)
• System administrators who log onto the RADIUS client from a local console
or Telnet.
• Routers that act as dial-up servers (concentrators).
• Other services that the server can authenticate such as FTP and HTTP.
RADIUS supports unnumbered IP addresses (demand circuit groups) and
numbered IP addresses (dial-up services). RADIUS clients that use dial-up
services typically use demand circuits, but they can also use backup or bandwidth
circuits.
To enable RADIUS, you must specify the client’s Internet Protocol (IP) address.
As the RADIUS client, the router passes this address to the server when a remote
user makes an authentication or accounting request. The server will not accept the
request without the client’s IP address.
Note:
To configure RADIUS with any service other than demand circuit
groups, Nortel Networks recommends using the BCC.
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