[RADIATOR] Radius domain only auth, with password='cisco'

Michael ringo at vianet.ca
Wed Nov 6 17:05:51 CST 2013


i'm looking to stop it. not set it up.  i'm not sure what had 
enabled/configured it to start happening.  I guess this is probably the 
wrong place to ask.

On 06/11/13 04:56 PM, Hugh Irvine wrote:
> Hello Michael -
>
> This sounds like Cisco VPDN tunnelling.
>
> This example is from the standard “users” file in the Radiator distribution:
>
>
> # This example shows how to configure a Cisco VPDN circuit:
> open.com.au     User-Password=cisco, Service-Type=Outbound-User
>          cisco-avpair = "vpdn:tunnel-id=cca-gw",
>          cisco-avpair = "vpdn:ip-addresses=1.2.3.4",
>          cisco-avpair = "vpdn:nas-password=pw",
>          cisco-avpair = "vpdn:gw-password=pw”
>
>
> regards
>
> Hugh
>
>
> On 7 Nov 2013, at 04:56, Michael <ringo at vianet.ca> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone ever seen a situation where, for every authentication attempt
>> to a radiator system from a cisco device, there is an authentication
>> attempt right before it that appears to be:
>>
>> - a domain (the username with the 'username@' part stripped off).
>> - plain text password is always 'cisco'.
>> - Service-Type = Outbound-User
>>
>> if I remove this line from the cisco lns:
>> aaa authorization network TEST group TEST
>> ...the extra auth attempts stop, but then my radius network static
>> profiles don't work, so it's not a solution but it narrows down the problem.
>>
>> my auth requests for the radiator system are essentially doubled due to
>> this.  This only started happening recently.  Network guys sometimes are
>> like a ticking time bomb and asking them can cause an explosion so i
>> thought i would ask here.
>>
>>
>> Mike
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>
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