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About This Guide

How to use this guide

This guide describes how to install and start up the RADIUS daemon, and provides detailed information about how to set up authentication, WAN connections, routing configurations, ATMP tunnels, and accounting records in RADIUS. It assumes that you have already installed the MAX TNT hardware, set up call routing, configured the Ethernet ports, and configured T1 PRI or E1 PRI lines. For details about carrying out these tasks, see the MAX TNT Hardware Installation Guide and the MAX TNT Network Guide.

Note: This manual describes the full set of features for the MAX TNT running software version 2.0.0. Some features might not be available with older versions or specialty loads of the software.

What you should know

This guide is intended for the person who will configure and maintain RADIUS and the MAX TNT. To use it effectively, you must have a basic understanding of MAX TNT security and configuration, and be familiar with authentication servers and networking concepts.

While this guide attempts to provide enough conceptual framework to enable an administrator who is not an expert in a particular network technology to configure RADIUS accurately, it does not start from the beginning with any network management topic. Following are the general areas in which it is helpful have some existing knowledge when configuring RADIUS:

Documentation conventions

This section explains all the special characters and typographical conventions in this manual.

Convention

Meaning
Monospace text

 Represents text that appears on your computer's screen, or that could appear on your computer's screen.

Boldface monospace text

 Represents characters that you enter exactly as shown (unless the characters are also in italics-see Italics, below). If you could enter the characters, but are not specifically instructed to, they do not appear in boldface.

Italics

 Represent variable information. Do not enter the words themselves in the command. Enter the information they represent. In ordinary text, italics are used for titles of publications, for some terms that would otherwise be in quotation marks, and to show emphasis.

[ ]

 Square brackets indicate an optional argument you might add to a command. To include such an argument, type only the information inside the brackets. Do not type the brackets unless they appear in bold type.

|

 Separates command choices that are mutually exclusive.

Note:

 Introduces important additional information.

Manual set

The MAX TNT documentation set consists of the following manuals:

Related publications

Many external references are readily available on the Web or in technical bookstores. You'll find a partial list of such references below.

Related RFCs

RFCs are available on the Web at http://ds.internic.net.

Information about PPP connections

For information about PPP connections and authentication, you might want to download one or more of the following:

Information about IPX routing

 For information about IPX routing, see RFC 1634: Novell IPX Over Various WAN Media (IPXWAN).

Information about IP routers

RFCs that describe the operation of IP routers include:

Information about OSPF routing

 For information about OSPF routing, see:

Information about multicast

 For information about multicast, see:

Information about firewalls and packet filtering

 RFCs that describe firewalls and packet filters include:

Information about general network security

 RFCs pertinent to network security include:

Information about external authentication

 For information about RADIUS and TACACS authentication, see:

ITU-T recommendations

 ITU-T recommendations (formerly CCITT) are available commercially. You can order them at http://www.itu.ch/publications/.

Related books

The following books are available in technical bookstores:


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