Blade ICE G8000 - Manual (Page 28)

RackSwitch G8000 Application Guide
28 „ Chapter 1: Accessing the Switch BMD00041, November 2008
RADIUS authentication features in Blade OS
Blade OS supports the following RADIUS authentication features:
„ Supports RADIUS client on the switch, based on the protocol definitions in RFC 2138 and
RFC 2866.
„ Allows RADIUS secret password up to 32 bytes and less than 16 octets.
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Supports secondary authentication server so that when the primary authentication server
is unreachable, the switch can send client authentication requests to the secondary authen-
tication server. Use the following command to show the currently active RADIUS authen-
tication server:
„ Supports user-configurable RADIUS server retry and time-out values:
† Time-out value = 1-10 seconds
† Retries = 1-3
The switch will time out if it does not receive a response from the RADIUS server in 1-3
retries. The switch will also automatically retry connecting to the RADIUS server before it
declares the server down.
„ Supports user-configurable RADIUS application port.
The default is 1812/UDP-based on RFC 2138. Port 1645 is also supported.
„ Allows network administrator to define privileges for one or more specific users to access
the switch at the RADIUS user database.
RS G8000 (config)# show radius-server