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RADIUS and TACACS+

RADIUS and TACACS+

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RADIUS and TACACS+

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- To understand how RADIUS works, what I want to start off with are these three blocks, and these three blocks are going to represent three different devices. Now, way over here on the right, we're going to have a RADIUS server. Now a RADIUS server is just a system that's running some type of RADIUS authentication software. There's Microsoft IAS. There's third-party tools like Steel Belted RADIUS. There are open source ones like Open RADIUS. So it's some type of authentication software that's running on a system here. Now the next thing you're going to have is a RADIUS client. Now, the RADIUS client is not who's actually being authenticated. His job is to handle authentication requests from RADIUS supplicants. So these are the guys who want to get authenticated. He's just the intermediary that makes the request to the server itself. So if we take a look at this, this is going to be a, let's say we have a wireless network, for example. So what I can do here, let's have a little fun…

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