IEEE 802.1X Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) Usage Guidelines
RFC 3580
| Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(September 2003; Errata)
Updated by RFC 7268
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| Last updated | 2020-01-21 | ||
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Network Working Group P. Congdon
Request for Comments: 3580 Hewlett Packard Company
Category: Informational B. Aboba
Microsoft
A. Smith
Trapeze Networks
G. Zorn
Cisco Systems
J. Roese
Enterasys
September 2003
IEEE 802.1X Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)
Usage Guidelines
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document provides suggestions on Remote Authentication Dial In
User Service (RADIUS) usage by IEEE 802.1X Authenticators. The
material in this document is also included within a non-normative
Appendix within the IEEE 802.1X specification, and is being presented
as an IETF RFC for informational purposes.
Congdon, et al. Informational [Page 1]
RFC 3580 IEEE 802.1X RADIUS September 2003
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Terminology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2. Requirements Language. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.1. User-Name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.2. User-Password, CHAP-Password, CHAP-Challenge . . . . . . 8
3.3. NAS-IP-Address, NAS-IPv6-Address . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.4. NAS-Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.5. Service-Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.6. Framed-Protocol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.7. Framed-IP-Address, Framed-IP-Netmask . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.8. Framed-Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.9. Filter-ID. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.10. Framed-MTU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.11. Framed-Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.12. Displayable Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.13. Callback-Number, Callback-ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.14. Framed-Route, Framed-IPv6-Route. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.15. State, Class, Proxy-State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.16. Vendor-Specific. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.17. Session-Timeout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.18. Idle-Timeout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.19. Termination-Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.20. Called-Station-Id. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.21. Calling-Station-Id . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.22. NAS-Identifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.23. NAS-Port-Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.24. Port-Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.25. Password-Retry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.26. Connect-Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.27. EAP-Message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.28. Message-Authenticator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.29. NAS-Port-Id. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.30. Framed-Pool, Framed-IPv6-Pool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.31. Tunnel Attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4. RC4 EAPOL-Key Descriptor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5. Security Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5.1. Packet Modification or Forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5.2. Dictionary Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.3. Known Plaintext Attacks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.4. Replay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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