>From: ryan l robbins <ryan.l.robbins at mail.sprint.com> > >Presently, users are dialing into a MAX 2024 and getting authenticated >locally. By locally do you mean connection profiles on the MAX? >I have Ascend Access Control v1.0Ai5 installed on a Windows NT >Server box. I'm currently testing login sessions using user profiles >stored in AAC. Login sessions meaning just terminal sessions - not a PPP session. >Authentication works fine, but error messages appear >after login. I'm using PPP protocol to connect, and a pool of IP's >stored and distributed on the MAX are being used. That is different from what is classically termed a login session.... >In testing, I first used my local profile to connect, and the following >text appeared in the terminal window: > >** Sprint Max2024 Termial Server ** > > >Login: rrobbins >Password: ***** >ascend% > >When I see the ascend% prompt, I know I am now attached to the network. This is a normal "login" session - NOT using PPP at all. >Next, I used my test profile stored on the RADIUS server to connect, and >the following text appeared in the terminal window: > >** Sprint Max2024 Termial Server ** > > >Login: bsimpson >Password: ***** You're authenticated.... > Entering PPP Mode. > IP address is 192.168.18.122 ...assigned an IP address from the pool.... > MTU is 1524. >| <--Cursor >At this point, the cursor moves to the next line, and hangs. If nothing >is done the connection will time out. If you hit a key on the keyboard, >successive, repeating line of garble (i.e. #@$*)(^%@) will appear and >repeat every few seconds. That is the PPP protocol that you were referring to earlier. At this point the PPP client should be started.... >After experiencing this trouble, I went to the "logfile" in the Database >directory, and the "detail" file in the Accounting directory and found >some discreptancies between the two login sessions. > >With the log file, it appears that Accounting Start Requests are getting >resent over and over again to the RADIUS server. The first two lines >appear as follows: > >Tue Aug 15 14:11:31 2000: Accounting: 106/19 'bsimpson' from >192.168.18.45 port 20120 Start - OK -- total 0, holding 0 >Tue Aug 15 14:11:32 2000: Received-Accounting: 107/20 'bsimpson' from >192.168.18.45 port 20120 Start >Tue Aug 15 14:11:32 2000: Accounting: 107/20 'bsimpson' from >192.168.18.45 port 20120 Start - OK -- total 0, holding 0 >Tue Aug 15 14:11:33 2000: Received-Accounting: 108/21 'bsimpson' from >192.168.18.45 port 20120 Start That means accounting is enabled on the MAX, and probably not running on the RADIUS server (AAC). >In the detail file, I noticed values for Ascend-Disconnect-Cause and >Ascend-Connect-Progress: > >Ascend-Disconnect-Cause = 11 >Ascend-Connect-Progress = 75 > >It looks to me that authentication is occurring fine, but >Accounting-Start packets are being sent from the MAX to the RADIUS >server, and no response is given from the RADIUS server back to the MAX. >Please contact me with any thoughts or ideas. Thank you for your >support. > >Regards, > >Ryan L. Robbins >Communication Services >Distributed Operations & Systems Management >ryan.l.robbins at mail.sprint.com > > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com To get FAQ'd: <http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq>