Radius Accounting Authentication Association
Posted by Michal Podoski, Last modified by Daniel Lizaola on 20 December 2017 01:17 PM
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With version 2.7.31+, SmartMedia has the Associated server field in the RADIUS Client configuration page:
General UsageLink accounting and authentication together logicallyThis allows to specify that whenever one of the two associated server is the Current one, then the other one should also be set as the current one. So both servers have to be the 'current' at the same time. Sends Acct/Auth requests to the same physical RADIUS serverThe association resolves a problem when you would have two physical RADIUS servers, each server hosts an accounting and authorization server, and you have a limitation on the Radius server to run the primary accounting and authentication on the same server (identical IP).
A specific scenarioThere are 2 Radius AUTH servers provisioned (RadSRV1 & RatSRV2) and 2 Radius ACCT servers provisioned (the same RadSRV1 & RadSRV2) So there are 3 different possibilities for switchover:
In this case, associating the accounting and authentication to the same IP will prevent occurrence of scenario 3. | ||
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