RFC 2866 - RADIUS Accounting

• Status: Informational
• Published: June 2000
• Stream: IETF
• Obsoletes: RFC2139
• Errata: No Errata

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Status of this Memo

This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

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Copyright Notice

Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved.

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Abstract

This document describes a protocol for carrying accounting information between a Network Access Server and a shared Accounting Server.

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Implementation Note

This memo documents the RADIUS Accounting protocol. The early deployment of RADIUS Accounting was done using UDP port number 1646, which conflicts with the "sa-msg-port" service. The officially assigned port number for RADIUS Accounting is 1813.

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Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Operation
• 3. Packet Format
• 4. Packet Types
• 5. Attributes
• 6. IANA Considerations
• 7. Security Considerations
• 8. Change Log
• 9. References
• 10. Acknowledgements
• 11. Chair's Address
• 12. Author's Address
• 13. Full Copyright Statement

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Quick Links

• Official RFC: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2866.txt
• Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2866