RE: Potential work items

["Nelson, David" <dnelson@enterasys.com>]

Avi writes...

> If I remember correctly, the Home RADIUS server has to interpret the
> attibutes.
> 
> A proxy server will never have to look at these attributes.  The Home
> Radius server will have a specific application running on it to 
> interpret the attributes and act on them.  Therefore, since proxy 
> servers don't have to parse the attributes and the home radius will 
> have a custom application on it; doesn't it make sense to still allow
> these attributes to be packed (somehow) in a String?

If you consider the EAP-Message attribute a String, I guess so.  :-)

I think Alan DeKok hit the nail on the head.  External "bolt on" or
"plug in" applications should that need to use RADIUS as a form of
opaque message transport should do it the way EAP does.

-- Dave


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