As part of the security hardening policies, I needed to secure access to the Riverbed Steelhead with RADIUS authentication. Since I already have a FreeRADIUS (v.2.2.5) in Debian Linux (8.6) running in the environment (currently used to authenticate with our network devices i.e. Cisco, Comware, Junos, Brocade), I only needed to follow the Steelhead Deployment Guide for RADIUS Configuration. However, it seem Riverbed forgot to update their documentation to reflect the latest FreeRADIUS.
I will post here my configuration experience for RADIUS configuration of Steelhead with FreeRADIUS. The first few steps are similar to the Deployment Guide.
First, update the FreeRADIUS clients file (/etc/freeradius/clients)
I will post here my configuration experience for RADIUS configuration of Steelhead with FreeRADIUS. The first few steps are similar to the Deployment Guide.
First, update the FreeRADIUS clients file (/etc/freeradius/clients)
# Steelhead device
client <device_mgmt_ip> {
secret = <radius_key>
nastype = other
shortname = <device_name>
}