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soymanue
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Jul 09, 2009

Radius IETF-assigned vendor number

Hello

 

I want to configure authorization using an External Radius/Tacacs Server. I've read these articles:

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm_implementations_guide_10_0_0/sol_mgmt_auth.html

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=63&articleType=ArticleView&articleId=2316

 

 

And I see I have to declare specific Attributes:

 

F5-LTM-User-Info-1

 

F5-LTM-User-Console

 

F5-LTM-User-Role

 

F5-LTM-User-Partition

 

To create this with CiscoSecure ACS I have to create VSAs (Vendor Specific Attributes) and I need the IETF vendor number and the definition of each attribute (variable type...)

 

 

Can you help me?
  • Hello,

     

    I am working coincidentially on the same issue.

     

    Reading

     

    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2865.txt you can find:

     

    "Vendor-Id

     

    The high-order octet is 0 and the low-order 3 octets are the SMI

     

    Network Management Private Enterprise Code of the Vendor in

     

    network byte order, as defined in the "Assigned Numbers" RFC [6].

     

    "

     

    In my opinion same numbering space is referenced here as the one used for snmp MIBs. I plan to use "3375" as seen in F5 snmp MIB files.

     

    As we are user of Enterprise Manager too, I plan to extend VSA definitions for ACS server of EM related parameters too. This means extra EM related value for role, partition and console access too.

     

    Regards,

     

    Valentin
  • As the EM does not support yet any remote roles, the EM related values are meant for future extension of the authentication model with RADIUS.

     

     

    "soymanue",

     

     

    I would be interested in the final and working acs.ini file content if you could share the information.

     

     

    Thanks.

     

     

    Valentin
  • Has this ACS VSA .ini file ever been created? I am about to do try to do this but would rather not re-invent the wheel