AAA
--authentication, authorization, and accounting. Suite of network security services that provide the primary framework through
which access control can be set up on your Cisco router or access server.
Acct-Session-ID
(attribute
44)
--A unique accounting identifier that makes it easy to match start and stop records in a log file. Acct-Session ID numbers
restart at 1 each time the router is power-cycled or the software is reloaded.
Class
(attribute
25)
--An accounting attribute. Arbitrary value that the network access server includes in all accounting packets for this user
if the attribute is supplied by the RADIUS server.
L2F
--Layer 2 Forwarding. A Layer 2 tunneling protocol that enables an ISP or other access service to create a virtual tunnel
to link customer remote sites or remote users with corporate home networks. In particular, a network access server (NAS) at
the ISP point of presence (POP) exchanges PPP messages with the remote users and communicates by L2F or L2TP requests and
responses with the customer tunnel server to set up tunnels.
NAS
--network access server. A Cisco platform (or collection of platforms, such as an AccessPath system) that interfaces between
the packet world (for example, the Internet) and the circuit world (for example, the public switched telephone network).
NAS-IP
Address
(attribute
4)
--Specifies the IP address of the network access server that is requesting authentication. The default value is 0.0.0.0/0.
PPP
--Point-to-Point Protocol. Successor to SLIP that provides router-to-router and host-to-network connections over synchronous
and asynchronous circuits. Whereas SLIP was designed to work with IP, PPP was designed to work with several network layer
protocols, such as IP, IPX, and ARA. PPP also has built-in security mechanisms, such as CHAP and PAP. PPP relies on two protocols:
LCP and NCP.
RADIUS
--Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service. RADIUS is a distributed client/server system that secures networks against unauthorized
access. In the Cisco implementation, RADIUS clients run on Cisco routers and send authentication requests to a central RADIUS
server that contains all user authentication and network service access information.
VPN
--A system that permits dial-in networks to exist remotely to home networks, while giving the appearance of being directly
connected. VPNs use L2TP and L2F to terminate the Layer 2 and higher parts of the network connection at the LNS instead of
the LAC.
Any Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and phone numbers used in this document are not intended to be actual addresses and phone
numbers. Any examples, command display output, network topology diagrams, and other figures included in the document are shown
for illustrative purposes only. Any use of actual IP addresses or phone numbers in illustrative content is unintentional and
coincidental.
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