Scannex ip.buffer User Manual
© UK 2007-2021 Scannex Electronics Ltd. All rights reserved worldwide.
10.3.3. RADIUS Accounting Collection
Set the port to either 1646 (the legacy port) or 1813. The ip.buffer will then behave as a
simple RADIUS accounting server. Incoming RADIUS accounting packets are authenticated
against the secret, and valid packets are decoded into simple ASCII lines that can be easily
processed.
Packets that do not match the ip.buffer's secret are silently discarded (according the RFC
requirements).
RADIUS Accounting
Secret
The private secret for the RADIUS packets
[“secret”]
The packets are decoded as follows:
192.168.0.16: Acct #1=”User” #40=1
The originating IP address is first, followed by “Acct”. Then each RADIUS attribute within
the packet is output. The attribute number is given, not the name, followed by “=” and
the value. Most of the RADIUS attributes are known, and are decoded into string, integer,
date/time, or IP address. Octet attributes, and unknown attributes, are decoded into an
ASCII hex representation, e.g. #24=0x12345678abcdef0
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Unlike a full PC-based RADIUS server, the ip.buffer has a single secret for all clients. PC-based
servers have one secret per client or group of clients.
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Scannex ip.buffer User Manual
© UK 2007-2021 Scannex Electronics Ltd. All rights reserved worldwide.
10.3.3. RADIUS Accounting Collection
Set the port to either 1646 (the legacy port) or 1813. The ip.buffer will then behave as a
simple RADIUS accounting server. Incoming RADIUS accounting packets are authenticated
against the secret, and valid packets are decoded into simple ASCII lines that can be easily
processed.
Packets that do not match the ip.buffer's secret are silently discarded (according the RFC
requirements).
RADIUS Accounting
Secret
The private secret for the RADIUS packets
[“secret”]
The packets are decoded as follows:
192.168.0.16: Acct #1=”User” #40=1
The originating IP address is first, followed by “Acct”. Then each RADIUS attribute within
the packet is output. The attribute number is given, not the name, followed by “=” and
the value. Most of the RADIUS attributes are known, and are decoded into string, integer,
date/time, or IP address. Octet attributes, and unknown attributes, are decoded into an
ASCII hex representation, e.g. #24=0x12345678abcdef0
18
Unlike a full PC-based RADIUS server, the ip.buffer has a single secret for all clients. PC-based
servers have one secret per client or group of clients.
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