RE: Issue: Zero Tag field in Filter-Rule attribute

["Glen Zorn \(gwz\)" <gwz@cisco.com>]

jouni.korhonen@teliasonera.com <> scribbled on Sunday, August 27, 2006
11:36 AM:

> [snip]
> 
>> The Tag field is one octet, and MUST always be present. It is used to
>> identify the filter rule that is represented. Where a single filter
>> rule exceeds 253 octets in length, the rule MUST be encoded across
>> multiple NAS-Filter-Rule attributes, each with the same non-zero Tag
>> value; non-zero Tag values MUST be unique for each filter rule
>> present in a RADIUS packet. The value of '0' (0x30) in the Tag field
>> indicates that the attribute contains a filter rule that does not
>> exceed 253 octets in length; as a result attributes with a Tag value
>> of 0x30 MUST NOT be concatenated, and one or more Filter-Rule
>> attributes with a tag value of 0x31 may be included
> 
> Shouldn't 0x31 here be 0x30?

Yup, good catch!

> 
>> in a single RADIUS packet, each describing a single filter rule.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Jouni

Hope this helps,

~gwz

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