CreateRadiusAuthenticator Method of the IFWXFirewall2 Interface

The CreateRadiusAuthenticator method creates a RADIUS authenticator interface (IFWXRadiusAuthenticator), which can be used to authenticate RADIUS users.

Syntax

HRESULT CreateRadiusAuthenticator(
  [out]  IFWXRadiusAuthenticator** ppIFWXRadiusAuthenticator
);

Parameters

ppIFWXRadiusAuthenticator: Address of an interface pointer that on return points to the new IFWXRadiusAuthenticator interface created.

Return Value

This method returns S_OK if the call is successful; otherwise, it returns an error code.

Remarks

An application filter can use the IFWXFirewall2::CreateRadiusAuthenticator method to get the IFWXRadiusAuthenticator interface. When a request is received on a listener that has RADIUS authentication enabled, and the application filter needs to perform RADIUS authentication, it calls IFWXRadiusAuthenticator::AuthenticateRadiusUser and gives it a pointer to its IFWXAuthenticationCompletion callback.

A component that has to perform RADIUS authentication should first call this method to obtain a RADIUS authenticator interface from the Microsoft Firewall service. Then the component can use this interface to perform RADIUS authentication, by invoking its IFWXRadiusAuthenticator::AuthenticateRadiusUser method. The component can keep a single instance of the interface and repeatedly invoke its IFWXRadiusAuthenticator::AuthenticateRadiusUser method for each user that requires authentication. When the component no longer needs to perform RADIUS authentication, it can release the IFWXRadiusAuthenticator interface.

Requirements

Server	Requires Windows Server 2008.
Version	Requires Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG).
Header	Declared in Wspfwext.idl.
DLL	Requires Wspsrv.exe.