RADIUS Route Download

The RADIUS Route Download feature allows users to configure their network access server (NAS) to direct RADIUS authorization.

Prerequisites for RADIUS Route Download

AAA network security must be enabled before you perform the tasks in this feature.

Information About RADIUS Route Download

The RADIUS Route Download feature allows users to configure their network access server (NAS) to direct RADIUS authorization. Users configure a separate named method list (in addition to the default method list) for static route download requests sent by their NAS to authorization, authentication, and accounting (AAA) servers.

Before this feature, RADIUS authorization for static route download requests was sent only to AAA servers specified by the default method list.

This feature extends the functionality of the aaa route download command to allow users to specify the name of the method list that will be used to direct static route download requests to the AAA servers. The aaa route download command may be used to specify a separate method list for downloading static routes. This method list can be added by using the aaa authorization configuration command.

How to Configure RADIUS Route Download

Configuring RADIUS Route Download

To configure the NAS to send static route download requests to the servers specified by a named method list, use the following commands in global configuration mode:

SUMMARY STEPS

  1. Router(config)# aaa authorization configuration method-name [ radius | tacacs+ | group group-name ]
  2. Router(config)# aaa route download [time ] [authorization method-list ]

DETAILED STEPS

  Command or Action Purpose

Step 1

Router(config)# aaa authorization configuration method-name [ radius | tacacs+ | group group-name ]

Downloads static route configuration information from the AAA server using RADIUS.

Step 2

Router(config)# aaa route download [time ] [authorization method-list ]

Enables the static route download feature. Use the authorization method-list attributes to specify a named method list to which RADIUS authorization requests for static route downloads are sent.

Verifying RADIUS Route Download

To verify the routes that are installed, use the show ip route command in EXEC mode.

To display information that is associated with RADIUS, use the debug radius command in privileged EXEC mode.

Configuration Examples for RADIUS Route Download

RADIUS Route Download Configuration Example

The following example shows how to configure the NAS to send static route download requests to the servers specified by the method list named “list1”: 


aaa new-model
aaa group server radius rad1
server 10.2.2.2 auth-port 1645 acct-port 1646
!
aaa group server tacacs+ tac1
server 172.17.3.3
!
aaa authorization configuration default group radius 
aaa authorization configuration list1 group rad1 group tac1 
aaa route download 1 authorization list1 
tacacs-server host 172.17.3.3
tacacs-server key cisco
tacacs-server administration
!
radius-server host 10.2.2.2 auth-port 1645 acct-port 1646
radius-server key cisco

Additional References

The following sections provide references related to RADIUS Route Download.

Related Documents

Related Topic

Document Title

Security commands

Cisco IOS Security Command Reference

Standards

Standard

Title

No new or modified standards are supported by this feature, and support for existing standards has not been modified by this feature.

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MIBs

MIB

MIBs Link

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To locate and download MIBs for selected platforms, Cisco IOS XE software releases, and feature sets, use Cisco MIB Locator found at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/go/mibs

RFCs

RFC

Title

No new or modified RFCs are supported by this feature, and support for existing RFCs has not been modified by this feature.

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Feature Information for RADIUS Route Download

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Table 1. Feature Information for RADIUS Route Download

Feature Name

Releases

Feature Information

RADIUS Route Download

Cisco IOS XE Release 2.1

The RADIUS Route Download feature allows users to configure their network access server (NAS) to direct RADIUS authorization. Users configure a separate named method list (in addition to the default method list) for static route download requests sent by their NAS to authorization, authentication, and accounting (AAA) servers.

In Cisco IOS XE Release 2.1, this feature was introduced on Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers.

The following commands were introduced: aaa route download