1-6
5) The Authenticator field (16 bytes) is used to authenticate the response from the RADIUS server;
and is used in the password hiding algorithm. There are two kinds of authenticators: Request
Authenticator and Response Authenticator.
6) The Attributes field contains specific authentication/authorization/accounting information to provide
the configuration details of a request or response message. This field contains a list of field triplet
(Type, Length and Value):
z The Type field (one byte) specifies the type of an attribute. Its value ranges from 1 to 255. Table 1-2
lists the attributes that are commonly used in RADIUS authentication/authorization.
z The Length field (one byte) specifies the total length of the attribute in bytes (including the Type,
Length and Value fields).
z The Value field (up to 253 bytes) contains the information of the attribute. Its format is determined
by the Type and Length fields.
Table 1-2 RADIUS attributes
Type field value Attribute type
Type field
value
Attribute type
1 User-Name 23 Framed-IPX-Network
2 User-Password 24 State
3 CHAP-Password 25 Class
4 NAS-IP-Address 26 Vendor-Specific
5 NAS-Port 27 Session-Timeout
6 Service-Type 28 Idle-Timeout
7 Framed-Protocol 29 Termination-Action
8 Framed-IP-Address 30 Called-Station-Id
9 Framed-IP-Netmask 31 Calling-Station-Id
10 Framed-Routing 32 NAS-Identifier
11 Filter-ID 33 Proxy-State
12 Framed-MTU 34 Login-LAT-Service
13 Framed-Compression 35 Login-LAT-Node
14 Login-IP-Host 36 Login-LAT-Group
15 Login-Service 37 Framed-AppleTalk-Link
16 Login-TCP-Port 38 Framed-AppleTalk-Network
17 (unassigned) 39 Framed-AppleTalk-Zone
18 Reply-Message 40-59 (reserved for accounting)
19 Callback-Number 60 CHAP-Challenge
20 Callback-ID 61 NAS-Port-Type
21 (unassigned) 62 Port-Limit
22 Framed-Route 63 Login-LAT-Port
The RADIUS protocol has good scalability. Attribute 26 (Vender-Specific) defined in this protocol allows
a device vendor to extend RADIUS to implement functions that are not defined in standard RADIUS.