RFC 2866 (rfc2866) - Page 1 of 28
RADIUS Accounting
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Network Working Group C. Rigney
Request for Comments: 2866 Livingston
Category: Informational June 2000
Obsoletes: 2139
RADIUS Accounting
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document describes a protocol for carrying accounting
information between a Network Access Server and a shared Accounting
Server.
Implementation Note
This memo documents the RADIUS Accounting protocol. The early
deployment of RADIUS Accounting was done using UDP port number 1646,
which conflicts with the "sa-msg-port" service. The officially
assigned port number for RADIUS Accounting is 1813.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction .................................... 2
1.1 Specification of Requirements ................. 3
1.2 Terminology ................................... 3
2. Operation ....................................... 4
2.1 Proxy ......................................... 4
3. Packet Format ................................... 5
4. Packet Types ................................... 7
4.1 Accounting-Request ............................ 8
4.2 Accounting-Response ........................... 9
5. Attributes ...................................... 10
5.1 Acct-Status-Type .............................. 12
5.2 Acct-Delay-Time ............................... 13
5.3 Acct-Input-Octets ............................. 14
5.4 Acct-Output-Octets ............................ 15
5.5 Acct-Session-Id ............................... 15
Rigney Informational
