- Securing User Services Overview
- Autosecure
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- Configuring RADIUS
- AAA Dead-Server Detection
- ACL Default Direction
- Attribute Screening for Access Requests
- Enable Multilink PPP via RADIUS for Preauthentication User
- Enhanced Test Command
- Framed-Route in RADIUS Accounting
- Offload Server Accounting Enhancement
- Per VRF AAA
- RFC-2867 RADIUS Tunnel Accounting
- RADIUS Attribute Screening
- RADIUS Centralized Filter Management
- RADIUS Debug Enhancements
- RADIUS Logical Line ID
- RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
- RADIUS Route Download
- RADIUS Support of 56-Bit Acct Session-Id
- RADIUS Tunnel Preference for Load Balancing and Fail-Over
- RADIUS Server Reorder on Failure
- Tunnel Authentication via RADIUS on Tunnel Terminator
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- RADIUS Attributes Overview and RADIUS IETF Attributes
- RADIUS Vendor-Proprietary Attributes
- Vendor-Specific Attributes (VSA) and RADIUS Disconnect-Cause Attribute Values
- Connect-Info RADIUS Attribute 77
- Encrypted Vendor Specific Attributes
- Local AAA Server
- Per-User QoS via AAA Policy Name
- RADIUS Attribute 5 (NAS-Port) Format Specified on a Per-Server Group Level
- RADIUS Attribute 8 (Framed-IP-Address) in Access Requests
- RADIUS Attribute 82: Tunnel Assignment ID
- RADIUS Attribute 104
- RADIUS Progress Codes
- RADIUS Timeout Set During Pre-Authentication
- RADIUS Tunnel Attribute Extensions
- V.92 Reporting Using RADIUS Attribute v.92-info
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- Cisco IOS Login Enhancements (Login Block)
- Cisco IOS Resilient Configuration
- Image Verification
- IP Source Tracker
- Role-Based CLI Access
- Finding Feature Information
- Contents
- Prerequisites for RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
- Restrictions for RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
- Information About RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
- How to Configure RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
The RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability feature allows an arbitrary IP address to be configured and used as RADIUS attribute 4, NAS-IP-Address, without changing the source IP address in the IP header of the RADIUS packets. This feature may be used for situations in which service providers are using a cluster of small network access servers (NASs) to simulate a large NAS to improve scalability. This feature allows the NASs to behave as a single RADIUS client from the perspective of the RADIUS server.
Finding Feature Information
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Contents
•Prerequisites for RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
•Restrictions for RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
•Information About RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
•How to Configure RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
•Configuration Examples for RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
•Feature Information for RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
Prerequisites for RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
The following requirements are necessary before configuring this feature:
•Experience with IP Security (IPSec) and configuring both RADIUS servers and authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) is necessary.
•RADIUS server and AAA lists must be configured.
Restrictions for RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
The following restrictions apply if a cluster of RADIUS clients are being used to simulate a single RADIUS client for scalability. Solutions, or workarounds, to the restrictions are also provided.
•RADIUS attribute 44, Acct-Session-Id, may overlap among sessions from different NASs.
There are two solutions. Either the radius-server attribute 44 extend-with-addr or radius-server unique-ident command can be used on NAS routers to specify different prepending numbers for different NAS routers.
•RADIUS server-based IP address pool for different NASs must be managed.
The solution is to configure different IP address pool profiles for different NASs on the RADIUS server. Different NASs use different pool usernames to retrieve them.
•RADIUS request message for sessions from different NASs must be differentiated.
One of the solutions is to configure different format strings for RADIUS attribute 32, NAS-Identifier, using the radius-server attribute 32 include-in-access-req command on different NASs.
Information About RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
To simulate a large NAS RADIUS client using a cluster of small NAS RADIUS clients, as shown in Figure 1, a Network Address Translation (NAT) or Port Address Translation (PAT) device is inserted in a network. The device is placed between a cluster of NASs and the IP cloud that is connected to a RADIUS server. When RADIUS traffic from different NASs goes through the NAT or PAT device, the source IP addresses of the RADIUS packets are translated to a single IP address, most likely an IP address on a loopback interface on the NAT or PAT device. Different User Datagram Protocol (UDP) source ports are assigned to RADIUS packets from different NASs. When the RADIUS reply comes back from the server, the NAT or PAT device receives it, uses the destination UDP port to translate the destination IP address back to the IP address of the NAS, and forwards the reply to the corresponding NAS.
Figure 1 demonstrates how the source IP addresses of several NASs are translated to a single IP address as they pass through the NAT or PAT device on the way to the IP cloud.
Figure 1 NAS Addresses Translated to a Single IP Address

RADIUS servers normally check the source IP address in the IP header of the RADIUS packets to track the source of the RADIUS requests and to maintain security. The NAT or PAT solution satisfies these requirements because only a single source IP address is used even though RADIUS packets come from different NAS routers.
However, when retrieving accounting records from the RADIUS database, some billing systems use RADIUS attribute 4, NAS-IP-Address, in the accounting records. The value of this attribute is recorded on the NAS routers as their own IP addresses. The NAS routers are not aware of the NAT or PAT that runs between them and the RADIUS server; therefore, different RADIUS attribute 4 addresses will be recorded in the accounting records for users from the different NAS routers. These addresses eventually expose different NAS routers to the RADIUS server and to the corresponding billing systems.
Using the RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability Feature
The RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability feature allows you to freely configure an arbitrary IP address as RADIUS NAS-IP-Address, RADIUS attribute 4. By manually configuring the same IP address, most likely the IP address on the loopback interface of the NAT or PAT device, for all the routers, you can hide a cluster of NAS routers behind the NAT or PAT device from the RADIUS server.
How to Configure RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
This section contains the following procedures:
•Configuring RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
•Monitoring and Maintaining RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
Configuring RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
Before configuring the RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability feature, you must have configured the RADIUS servers or server groups and AAA method lists.
To configure the RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability feature, perform the following steps.
SUMMARY STEPS
1. enable
2. configure terminal
3. radius-server attribute 4 ip-address
DETAILED STEPS
Monitoring and Maintaining RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
To monitor the RADIUS attribute 4 address that is being used inside the RADIUS packets, use the debug radius command.
SUMMARY STEPS
1. enable
2. debug radius
DETAILED STEPS
Examples
The following sample output is from the debug radius command:
Router# debug radius
RADIUS/ENCODE(0000001C): acct_session_id: 29
RADIUS(0000001C): sending
RADIUS(0000001C): Send Access-Request to 10.0.0.10:1645 id 21645/17, len 81
RADIUS: authenticator D0 27 34 C0 F0 C4 1C 1B - 3C 47 08 A2 7E E1 63 2F
RADIUS: Framed-Protocol [7] 6 PPP [1]
RADIUS: User-Name [1] 18 "shashi@pepsi.com"
RADIUS: CHAP-Password [3] 19 *
RADIUS: NAS-Port-Type [61] 6 Virtual [5]
RADIUS: Service-Type [6] 6 Framed [2]
RADIUS: NAS-IP-Address [4] 6 10.0.0.21
UDP: sent src=10.1.1.1(21645), dst=10.0.0.10(1645), length=109
UDP: rcvd src=10.0.0.10(1645), dst=10.1.1.1(21645), length=40
RADIUS: Received from id 21645/17 10.0.0.10:1645, Access-Accept, len 32
RADIUS: authenticator C6 99 EC 1A 47 0A 5F F2 - B8 30 4A 4C FF 4B 1D F0
RADIUS: Service-Type [6] 6 Framed [2]
RADIUS: Framed-Protocol [7] 6 PPP [1]
RADIUS(0000001C): Received from id 21645/17
Configuration Examples for RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
This section provides the following configuration example:
•Configuring a RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability: Example
Configuring a RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability: Example
The following example shows that IP address 10.0.0.21 has been configured as the RADIUS NAS-IP-Address attribute:
radius-server attribute 4 10.0.0.21
radius-server host 10.0.0.10 auth-port 1645 acct-port 1646 key cisco
Additional References
The following sections provide references related to RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability.
Related Documents
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Configuring AAA |
"Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA)" section of Cisco IOS Security Configuration Guide: Securing User Services |
Configuring RADIUS |
"Configuring RADIUS" module. |
RADIUS commands |
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Feature Information for RADIUS NAS-IP-Address Attribute Configurability
Table 1 lists the release history for this feature.
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Note Table 1 lists only the Cisco IOS software release that introduced support for a given feature in a given Cisco IOS software release train. Unless noted otherwise, subsequent releases of that Cisco IOS software release train also support that feature.