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RADIUS Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
VLAN Assignment in an Authentication Session
tion parameters (such as VLAN assignment) used in an active client 
session on the switch. The switch (NAS) does not have to initiate the 
exchange. 
For example, for security reasons you may want to limit the network 
services granted to an authenticated user. In this case, you can change the 
user profile on the RADIUS server and have the new authorization settings 
take effect immediately in the active client session. The Change-of-Autho-
rization attribute provides the mechanism to dynamically update an active 
client session with a new user policy that is sent in RADIUS packets. See 
figures 6-16 and 6-17. See “3. Configure the Switch To Access a RADIUS 
Server” on page 6-14 for configuration commands for dynamic authoriza-
tion.
Figure 6-16. Example of Output for Dynamic Authorization Configuration
HP Switch(config)# show radius dyn-authorization
 Status and Counters - RADIUS Dynamic Authorization Information
  NAS Identifier : LAB-8212
  Invalid Client Addresses (CoA-Reqs) : 0
  Invalid Client Addresses (Disc-Reqs) : 0
                  Disc     Disc     Disc     CoA      CoA      CoA
  Client IP Addr  Reqs     ACKs     NAKs     Reqs     ACKs     NAKs
  --------------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --------
  154.34.23.106   1        1        0        2        2        0
  154.45.234.12   2        1        1        3        3        0