Nortel Networks 4050 User Manual

Chapter 6 Configuring authentication 247

Nortel Secure Network Access Switch 4050 User Guide

 

You can configure additional RADIUS servers for the domain, for redundancy. 
You can have a maximum of three RADIUS authentication servers in the 
configuration. You can control the order in which the RADIUS servers respond to 
authentication requests.

To enable RADIUS authentication, ensure that the authentication ID that 
represents the RADIUS configuration is included in the authentication order you 
have specified for the Nortel SNAS 4050 domain (see 

To manage the RADIUS servers used for client authentication in the domain, use 
the following command:

The Radius servers menu displays.

timeout <interval>

Sets the timeout interval for a connection request to a 
RADIUS server. At the end of the timeout period, if no 
connection has been established, authentication will 
fail.

•

interval

 is an integer that indicates the time 

interval in seconds (

s

), minutes (

m

), or hours (

h

). If 

you do not specify a measurement unit, seconds is 
assumed. The range is 1–10000 seconds. The 
default is 10 seconds. 

sessiontim

Accesses the Session Timeout menu, in order to 
configure settings to control the length of client 
sessions (see 

).

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