Radius Capture
This scenario shows how to capture and filter RADIUS accounting messages after successful authentication.
Test RADIUS Accounting With 802.1x Authentication
Description
DUT0 is configured with an 802.1x-authenticated interface and DUT1 acts as an 802.1x supplicant. RADIUS accounting messages are captured in DUT0.
Scenario
Step 1: Set the following configuration in DUT0 :
set interfaces ethernet eth0 address 10.215.168.64/24 set interfaces ethernet eth2 address 192.168.100.1/24 set interfaces ethernet eth2 authenticator 802.1x max-retransmissions 2 set interfaces ethernet eth2 authenticator aaa accounting list1 set interfaces ethernet eth2 authenticator aaa authentication list1 set interfaces ethernet eth2 authenticator log-level debug set interfaces ethernet eth2 authenticator mode only-802.1x set interfaces ethernet eth2 authenticator quiet-period 60 set interfaces ethernet eth2 authenticator reauth-period 0 set system aaa group radius radgroup1 server serv1 set system aaa list list1 method 1 group radius radgroup1 set system aaa server radius serv1 address 10.215.168.1 set system aaa server radius serv1 encrypted-key U2FsdGVkX18U+hnYy05FNRGRhyopPDJjYyiojuGuGcUhRKHg25FAP3XePofIOwYLKor+hFLcJ5LTkty+h7kUeA== set system login user admin authentication encrypted-password '$6$GSjsCj8gHLv$/VcqU6FLi6CT2Oxn0MJQ2C2tqnRDrYKNF8HIYWJp68nvXvPdFccDsT04.WtigUONbKYrgKg8d6rEs8PjljMkH0'
Step 2: Ping IP address 10.215.168.1 from DUT0:
admin@DUT0$ ping 10.215.168.1 count 1 size 56 timeout 1Show output
PING 10.215.168.1 (10.215.168.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.215.168.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.462 ms --- 10.215.168.1 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.462/0.462/0.462/0.000 ms
Note
Start packet capture in DUT0 to filter RADIUS messages
Step 3: Set the following configuration in DUT1 :
set interfaces ethernet eth2 address 192.168.100.2/24 set interfaces ethernet eth2 supplicant encrypted-password U2FsdGVkX1/vj9Ec+YhLPygmlwMhaTjRjGK/Ae8cNCo= set interfaces ethernet eth2 supplicant username testing set system login user admin authentication encrypted-password '$6$GSjsCj8gHLv$/VcqU6FLi6CT2Oxn0MJQ2C2tqnRDrYKNF8HIYWJp68nvXvPdFccDsT04.WtigUONbKYrgKg8d6rEs8PjljMkH0'
Step 4: Run command interfaces ethernet eth2 supplicant show status at DUT1 and check if output contains the following tokens:
AuthorizedShow output
--------------------------------------------------- Field Value --------------------------------------------------- EAP State SUCCESS EAP TLS Cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 EAP TLS Version TLSv1.2 PAE State AUTHENTICATED Supplicant Port Status Authorized WPA State COMPLETED
Step 5: Ping IP address 192.168.100.1 from DUT1:
admin@DUT1$ ping 192.168.100.1 count 1 size 56 timeout 1Show output
PING 192.168.100.1 (192.168.100.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.100.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.474 ms --- 192.168.100.1 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.474/0.474/0.474/0.000 ms
Note
Stop packet capture in DUT0 and expect
the following RADIUS messages:
Show output
tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), snapshot length 262144 bytes 18:48:54.567617 de:ad:be:ef:6c:00 > fe:43:12:09:51:20, ethertype IPv4 (0x0800), length 183: (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 52555, offset 0, flags [none], proto UDP (17), length 169) 10.215.168.64.57586 > 10.215.168.1.1813: [bad udp cksum 0x6696 -> 0x3ca0!] RADIUS, length: 141 Accounting-Request (4), id: 0x0b, Authenticator: 0ae210ccc2e2ede2b0099e96f9745f6a Acct-Status-Type Attribute (40), length: 6, Value: Start 0x0000: 0000 0001 Acct-Authentic Attribute (45), length: 6, Value: RADIUS 0x0000: 0000 0001 User-Name Attribute (1), length: 9, Value: testing 0x0000: 7465 7374 696e 67 Called-Station-Id Attribute (30), length: 20, Value: DE-AD-BE-EF-6C-02: 0x0000: 4445 2d41 442d 4245 2d45 462d 3643 2d30 0x0010: 323a Service-Type Attribute (6), length: 6, Value: Framed 0x0000: 0000 0002 Calling-Station-Id Attribute (31), length: 19, Value: DE-AD-BE-EF-6C-12 0x0000: 4445 2d41 442d 4245 2d45 462d 3643 2d31 0x0010: 32 Acct-Session-Id Attribute (44), length: 18, Value: 9FC4FAB5D1B2CFEA 0x0000: 3946 4334 4641 4235 4431 4232 4346 4541 NAS-Port-Type Attribute (61), length: 6, Value: Ethernet 0x0000: 0000 000f Connect-Info Attribute (77), length: 13, Value: Unsupported 0x0000: 556e 7375 7070 6f72 7465 64 NAS-Port-Id Attribute (87), length: 6, Value: eth2 0x0000: 6574 6832 Event-Timestamp Attribute (55), length: 6, Value: Thu Mar 5 18:48:54 2026 0x0000: 69a9 d016 Acct-Delay-Time Attribute (41), length: 6, Value: 00 secs 0x0000: 0000 0000 1 packet captured 2 packets received by filter 0 packets dropped by kernel admin@osdx$
Step 6: Run command interfaces ethernet eth2 authenticator show stats at DUT0 and check if output matches the following regular expressions:
Authentication Mode\s+802.1X Session User MAC\s+de:ad:be:ef:6c:12 Session User Name\s+testingShow output
--------------------------------------------- Field Value --------------------------------------------- Access Challenges 9 Authentication Backend RADIUS Authentication Failures 0 Authentication Mode 802.1X Authentication Status Authorized (802.1X) Authentication Successes 1 EAPoL frames (Rx) 11 EAPoL frames (Tx) 11 Quiet Period 60 Reauthenticate FALSE Reauthenticate Period 0 Session Time 0 Session User MAC de:ad:be:ef:6c:12 Session User Name testing
Test RADIUS Accounting With MAB Authentication
Description
DUT0 is configured with a MAB-authenticated interface. RADIUS accounting messages are captured in DUT0.
Scenario
Step 1: Set the following configuration in DUT0 :
set interfaces ethernet eth0 address 10.215.168.64/24 set interfaces ethernet eth2 address 192.168.100.1/24 set interfaces ethernet eth2 authenticator aaa accounting list1 set interfaces ethernet eth2 authenticator aaa authentication list1 set interfaces ethernet eth2 authenticator log-level debug set interfaces ethernet eth2 authenticator mode only-MAB set interfaces ethernet eth2 authenticator quiet-period 60 set interfaces ethernet eth2 authenticator reauth-period 0 set system aaa group radius radgroup1 server serv1 set system aaa list list1 method 1 group radius radgroup1 set system aaa server radius serv1 address 10.215.168.1 set system aaa server radius serv1 encrypted-key U2FsdGVkX1/BTWHePRrhJQvXZuu+AR4A8zhE1Y12q8kkwGBbGEc7RhbuZjkuOaGU2FpwkwLgfhX068fD//AW2Q== set system login user admin authentication encrypted-password '$6$GSjsCj8gHLv$/VcqU6FLi6CT2Oxn0MJQ2C2tqnRDrYKNF8HIYWJp68nvXvPdFccDsT04.WtigUONbKYrgKg8d6rEs8PjljMkH0'
Step 2: Ping IP address 10.215.168.1 from DUT0:
admin@DUT0$ ping 10.215.168.1 count 1 size 56 timeout 1Show output
PING 10.215.168.1 (10.215.168.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.215.168.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.243 ms --- 10.215.168.1 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.243/0.243/0.243/0.000 ms
Note
Start packet capture in DUT0 to filter RADIUS messages
Step 3: Set the following configuration in DUT1 :
set interfaces ethernet eth2 address 192.168.100.2/24 set system login user admin authentication encrypted-password '$6$GSjsCj8gHLv$/VcqU6FLi6CT2Oxn0MJQ2C2tqnRDrYKNF8HIYWJp68nvXvPdFccDsT04.WtigUONbKYrgKg8d6rEs8PjljMkH0'
Step 4: Ping IP address 192.168.100.1 from DUT1:
admin@DUT1$ ping 192.168.100.1 count 1 size 56 timeout 1Show output
PING 192.168.100.1 (192.168.100.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.100.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.710 ms --- 192.168.100.1 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.710/0.710/0.710/0.000 ms
Note
Stop packet capture in DUT0 and expect
the following RADIUS messages:
Show output
tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), snapshot length 262144 bytes 18:49:07.260677 de:ad:be:ef:6c:00 > fe:43:12:09:51:20, ethertype IPv4 (0x0800), length 193: (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 65497, offset 0, flags [none], proto UDP (17), length 179) 10.215.168.64.43235 > 10.215.168.1.1813: [bad udp cksum 0x66a0 -> 0x0638!] RADIUS, length: 151 Accounting-Request (4), id: 0x01, Authenticator: 6ac4d4023486055ae2e9d19f83747d4b Acct-Status-Type Attribute (40), length: 6, Value: Start 0x0000: 0000 0001 Acct-Authentic Attribute (45), length: 6, Value: Local 0x0000: 0000 0002 User-Name Attribute (1), length: 19, Value: de:ad:be:ef:6c:12 0x0000: 6465 3a61 643a 6265 3a65 663a 3663 3a31 0x0010: 32 Called-Station-Id Attribute (30), length: 20, Value: DE-AD-BE-EF-6C-02: 0x0000: 4445 2d41 442d 4245 2d45 462d 3643 2d30 0x0010: 323a Service-Type Attribute (6), length: 6, Value: Framed 0x0000: 0000 0002 Calling-Station-Id Attribute (31), length: 19, Value: DE-AD-BE-EF-6C-12 0x0000: 4445 2d41 442d 4245 2d45 462d 3643 2d31 0x0010: 32 Acct-Session-Id Attribute (44), length: 18, Value: 8C8D139A5955CBB8 0x0000: 3843 3844 3133 3941 3539 3535 4342 4238 NAS-Port-Type Attribute (61), length: 6, Value: Ethernet 0x0000: 0000 000f Connect-Info Attribute (77), length: 13, Value: Unsupported 0x0000: 556e 7375 7070 6f72 7465 64 NAS-Port-Id Attribute (87), length: 6, Value: eth2 0x0000: 6574 6832 Event-Timestamp Attribute (55), length: 6, Value: Thu Mar 5 18:49:07 2026 0x0000: 69a9 d023 Acct-Delay-Time Attribute (41), length: 6, Value: 00 secs 0x0000: 0000 0000 1 packet captured 2 packets received by filter 0 packets dropped by kernel admin@osdx$
Step 5: Run command interfaces ethernet eth2 authenticator show stats at DUT0 and check if output matches the following regular expressions:
Authentication Mode\s+MAB Session User MAC\s+de:ad:be:ef:6c:12 Session User Name\s+N/AShow output
------------------------------------------- Field Value ------------------------------------------- Access Challenges 0 Authentication Backend RADIUS Authentication Failures 0 Authentication Mode MAB Authentication Status Authorized (MAB) Authentication Successes 1 EAPoL frames (Rx) 0 EAPoL frames (Tx) 0 Quiet Period 60 Reauthenticate FALSE Reauthenticate Period 0 Session Time 1 Session User MAC de:ad:be:ef:6c:12 Session User Name N/A