What valid characters are there in RADIUS usernames?
Any printable non-control character except for “/” and “@” are valid characters in a RADIUS user name. “/” and “@” are not allowed, as they are used as separators between the login and realm. • Where can I find out more information about RADIUS on the web? STANDARDS rfc2138 and rfc2139 (the RADIUS associated standards) can be found by clicking on the appropriate link. FREE RADIUS SOURCE CODE Livingston (now Lucent) sources [NOTE — only version 1.x sources are free]. Cistron information. Merit information. COMMERCIAL RADIUS PRODUCTS Microsoft has an easy to configure and use free RADIUS server that runs under NT. Access Registrar, a Cisco product. Steel-Belted RADIUS, a Funk product. Radiator, a RADIUS server written in Perl. There are many other commercial RADIUS servers, including (but not limited to): Lucent/Ascend. • What is the breakdown of the fields in RADIUS accounting packet “Connect-Info”? An example of a Connect-Info accounting packet is as follows: Field number 1 2 3 4 5 6
