Configuring Radius Clients - Patton electronics SmartNode Series Software Configuration Manual

9 • Radius Client Configuration
Transactions between the Radius client and server are authenticated through the use of a shared secret, which is
never sent over the network—the same secret must thus be known to the server and the client by configuration.
Using this secret as an encryption key, user passwords are sent encrypted between the client and Radius server.
Configuring Radius clients
If the AAA profiles you have defined make use of the Radius AAA method, you must configure the correspond-
ing Radius clients. To configure Radius clients, do the following steps:
Mode: Configure
Step
1 node (cfg)#Radius-client name
2 node(Radius)[name]#Radius-server host-
name
3 node(Radius)[name]#shared-secret
authentication secret
4 node(Radius)[name]#exit
5 node(cfg)#show Radius-client name
Example: Configure the Radius clients as shown in
SN>enable
SN#configure
SN(cfg)#Radius-client Radius_deepblue
SN(Radius)[Radius_~]#Radius-server deepblue
SN(Radius)[Radius_~]#shared-secret authentication 78f8a23b
SN(Radius)[Radius_~]#exit
SN(cfg)#Radius-client Radius_extern
SN(Radius)[Radius_~]#Radius-server 219.144.12.1
SN(Radius)[Radius_~]#shared-secret authentication dd9351e13cc335
SN(Radius)[Radius_~]#exit
SN(cfg)#
SN(cfg)#show Radius-client
Radius clients:
Radius_deepblue
Radius_extern
SN(cfg)#show Radius-client Radius_deepblue
AAA Radius Module: Radius_deepblue
Authentication Shared Secret: 78f8a23b
Timeout: 6
Sessions:
UDP Interface:
Configured Server Hostname: deepblue
SN(cfg)#show Radius-client Radius_extern
AAA Radius Module: Radius_extern
Authentication Shared Secret: dd9351e13cc335
Timeout: 6
Sessions:
UDP Interface:
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Command
SmartWare Software Configuration Guide
Adds a Radius client with name name and enters
Radius-client configuration mode
Sets the hostname (or IP address) of the remote
Radius server
Sets the password shared between the Radius cli-
ent (the SmartNode) and the remote Radius
server.
Goes back to the parent configuration mode
Displays configured Radius servers
figure 24.
Purpose
Radius configuration