R3721-F3210-F3171-HP High-End Firewalls Access Control Configuration Guide-6PW101

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Follow these guidelines when you configure RADIUS accounting servers:
• The IP addresses of the primary and secondary accounting servers must be different from each other.
Otherwise, the configuration fails.
• All servers for authentication/authorization and accountings, primary or secondary, must use IP
addresses of the same IP version.
• If you delete an accounting server that is serving users, the firewall can no longer send real-time
accounting requests and stop-accounting requests for the users to that server, or buffer the
stop-accounting requests.
• You can specify a RADIUS accounting server as the primary accounting server for one scheme and
simultaneously as a secondary accounting server for another scheme.
• RADIUS does not support accounting for FTP users.
To specify RADIUS accounting servers and set relevant parameters for a scheme:
Step Command Remarks
1. Enter system view.
system-view N/A
2. Enter RADIUS scheme
view.
radius scheme radius-scheme-name N/A
3. Specify RADIUS
accounting servers.
• Specify the primary RADIUS accounting
server:
primary accounting { ip-address | ipv6
ipv6-address } [ port-number | key [ cipher |
simple ] key | vpn-instance
vpn-instance-name ] *
• Specify a secondary RADIUS accounting
server:
secondary accounting { ip-address | ipv6
ipv6-address } [ port-number | key [ cipher |
simple ] key | vpn-instance
vpn-instance-name ] *
Configure at least one
command.
No accounting server is
specified by default.
In FIPS mode, the firewall
supports only ciphertext
shared keys of at least 8
characters that must
contain uppercase
letters, lowercase letters,
digits, and special
characters.
4. Set the maximum number
of real-time accounting
attempts.
retry realtime-accounting retry-times
Optional.
The default setting is 5.
5. Enable buffering of
stop-accounting requests to
which no responses are
received.
stop-accounting-buffer enable
Optional.
Enabled by default.
6. Set the maximum number
of stop-accounting
attempts.
retry stop-accounting retry-times
Optional.
The default setting is
500.
Specifying the shared keys for authenticating RADIUS packets
The RADIUS client and RADIUS server use the MD5 algorithm to encrypt packets exchanged between
them and use shared keys to authenticate the packets. They must use the same shared key for the same
type of packets.
A shared key configured in this task is for all servers of the same type (accounting or authentication) in
the scheme, and has a lower priority than a shared key configured individually for a RADIUS server.
To specify shared keys for authenticating RADIUS packets: