Radius packet ID

Arran Cudbard-Bell arran.cudbard-bell at hp.com
Mon Jan 25 21:55:03 CET 2010


On 1/23/2010 2:07 AM, Alan DeKok wrote:
> Padam J Singh wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> The RADIUS packet has a 8 bit ID field.
>>
>> This ID field is used to track the requests both in the NAS and the
>> RADIUS server.
>>
>> The question is, does the ID need to be unique between the NAS and
>> RADIUS Server for all packet types? So it is OK to have an ID of 102 in
>> an accounting packet and an ID of 102 for an authentication packet at
>> the same time?
>>      
>    Yes.
>    

Really? But they're going to different destination ports, and therefore 
different interfaces?

-Arran

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