when aaa/cisco secure goes down

[jgebbia]

My question is, when enabling aaa on the router to use Cisco secure, if the Cisco Secure server goes down, can you still telnet into the router ? If so what is the command you need to use.

Thanks

[p.steele]

When using AAA authentication you can specify multiple authentication methods. This means if your primary authentication method is Tacacs+ and the server goes down it will autimactically revert to the secondary authentication method, that being whatever you have defined.

aaa authentication ppp default tacacs+ local

This will force ppp authentications to use tacacs+ as the default and if the server is unavailable then it will prompt for authentication using the local usernames and passwords.

Hope this helps.