RADIUS Authentication and Accounting 
Viewing RADIUS Statistics 
Figure 6-22. RADIUS Server Information From the Show Radius Host Command 
Term  Definition 
Round Trip Time  The time interval between the most recent Accounting-Response and the Accounting-
Request that matched it from this RADIUS accounting server. 
PendingRequests  The number of RADIUS Accounting-Request packets sent to this server that have not yet 
timed out or received a response. This variable is incremented when an accounting-Request 
is sent and decremented due to receipt of an Accounting-Response, a timeout or a 
retransmission. 
Retransmissions  The number of RADIUS Accounting-Request packets retransmitted to this RADIUS 
accounting server. Retransmissions include retries where the Identifier and Acct-Delay have 
been updated, as well as those in which they remain the same. 
Timeouts  The number of accounting timeouts to this server. After a timeout the client may retry to the 
same server, send to a different server, or give up. A retry to the same server is counted as 
a retransmit as well as a timeout. A send to a different server is counted as an Accounting-
Request as well as a timeout. 
Malformed Responses  The number of malformed RADIUS Accounting-Response packets received from this server. 
Malformed packets include packets with an invalid length. Bad authenticators and unknown 
types are not included as malformed accounting responses. 
Bad Authenticators  The number of RADIUS Accounting-Response packets which contained invalid 
authenticators received from this server. 
Unknown Types  The number of RADIUS packets of unknown type which were received from this server on 
the accounting port. 
Packets Dropped  The number of RADIUS packets which were received from this server on the accounting port 
and dropped for some other reason. 
Requests  The number of RADIUS Accounting-Request packets sent. This does not include 
retransmissions. 
AccessChallenges  The number of RADIUS Access-Challenge packets (valid or invalid) received from this server. 
AccessAccepts  The number of RADIUS Access-Accept packets (valid or invalid) received from this server. 
AccessRejects  The number of RADIUS Access-Reject packets (valid or invalid) received from this server. 
Responses  The number of RADIUS packets received on the accounting port from this server. 
RADIUS Authentication Statistics 
Syntax:  show authentication 
Displays the primary and secondary authentication meth-
ods configured for the Console, Telnet, Port-Access (802.1x), 
and SSH methods of accessing the switch. Also displays the 
number of access attempts currently allowed in a session. 
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