RFC 5997

"Use of Status-Server Packets in the Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) Protocol", August 2010

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5997.txt
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Status:

INFORMATIONAL

Updates:

RFC 2866

Author:

A. DeKok

Stream:

IETF

Source:

radext (ops)

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Abstract

This document describes a deployed extension to the Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) protocol, enabling clients to query the status of a RADIUS server. This extension utilizes the Status-Server (12) Code, which was reserved for experimental use in RFC 2865. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.