Administrator Guide

● responds to a CoA-Request containing one or more incorrect attribute values with a CoA-Nak; Error-Cause value is “Invalid
Attribute Value” (407).
NOTE:
The Invalid Attribute Value Error-Cause is applicable to following scenarios:
○ if the CoA request contains incorrect Vendor-Specific attribute value.
○ if the CoA request contains incorrect NAS-port or calling-station-id values.
● rejects the CoA-Request containing NAS-IP-Address or NAS-IPV6-Address attribute that does not match the NAS with a
CoA-Nak; Error-Cause value is “NAS Identification Mismatch” (403).
● responds with a CoA-Nak, if it is configured to prohibit honoring of corresponding CoA-Request messages; Error-Cause
value is “Administratively Prohibited” (501).
NOTE:
The Administratively Prohibited Error-Cause is also applicable to following scenarios:
○ if the dot1x feature is not enabled in the NAS-port.
○ if the NAS-port state is administratively down.
CoA or DM Discard
This section lists various actions that the NAS performs during CoA or DM discard.
The following activities are performed by NAS:
● discards the packet, if dynamic authorization feature is not enabled in NAS.
● discards the packet, if the configured shared key entry is not found for the source IP address of the packet.
● discards the packet with invalid code field. NAS supports the following radius codes.
○ Disconnect-Request (40)
○ CoA-Request (43)
● discards the duplicate packets, if NAS is currently processing the original packet. NAS identifies the duplicate packet with
the following fields:
○ Source IP address
○ Source UDP port
○ Identifier
○ VRF ID
● discards the packets, if length of the packet is shorter than the length field value.
● discards the packets, if length of the packet is shorter than 20 or longer than 4096.
● discards the packets, if request authenticator does not match the calculated MD5 checksum. NAS calculates the MD5 hash
using following fields from the request:
○ Code
○ Identifier
○ Length
○ 16 Zero Octets
○ Request Attributes
○ Shared secret (based on the source IP address of the packet)
● discards the packets, if the message-authenticator received in the request is invalid. The message-authenticator is
calculated using the following fields:
○ Code Type
○ Identifier
○ Length
○ Request Authenticator
○ Attributes
Disconnect Message Processing
This section lists various actions that the NAS performs during DM processing.
The following activities are performed by NAS:
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