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Event ID 28 — Remote RADIUS Server Response Status

Applies To: Windows Server 2008

When you configure Network Policy Server (NPS) as a RADIUS proxy, remote RADIUS server responses received by the NPS proxy must be valid. If remote RADIUS server responses are not valid, the NPS proxy cannot communicate with the RADIUS server, which might cause connection request processing failure.

Event Details

Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 28
Source: NPS
Version: 6.0
Symbolic Name: PROXY_E_BAD_AUTHENTICATOR
Message: The RADIUS Proxy received a response from server %1 with an invalid authenticator.

Resolve

Reconfigure, update, or replace the RADIUS server

To perform this procedure, you must be a member of Domain Admins.

To reconfigure, update, or replace the RADIUS server:

  1. Contact your RADIUS server vendor for configuration assistance or software or firmware updates. RADIUS server vendors might provide updates that allow the RADIUS server to send response messages that comply with the RADIUS protocol.
  2. If your RADIUS server vendor cannot provide reconfiguration instructions or updates that allow the RADIUS server to send RADIUS protocol-compliant messages, you must obtain and install a RADIUS protocol-compliant RADIUS server for use with NPS.

Verify

To verify that RADIUS messages are not malformed:

  1. On the server running NPS, start an application that is used to capture network traffic and begin a capture.
  2. On a computer that is configured according to network access policy to connect to the network, log on to the network with a valid user account and valid credentials through the RADIUS client that previously sent the malformed message.
  3. On the server running NPS, stop the network traffic capture, and then review UDP RADIUS traffic to confirm that the responses from the RADIUS server comply with the RADIUS protocol specification.

Remote RADIUS Server Response Status

Network Policy Server Infrastructure