Bug ID 648305: RADIUS Access-Requests are not fully RFC compliant.

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IQ Platform(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
5.1.0

Opened: Mar 01, 2017

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

The RFC states an Access-Request MUST contain either a NAS-IP-Address attribute or a NAS-Identifier attribute (or both).

Impact

Failing authentication with properly configured RADIUS server and BIG-IQ configuration.

Conditions

Setup RADIUS authentication and some servers won't accept the Access-Requests

Workaround

The RADIUS server can be adjusted to be more lenient to the missing attributes.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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