Re: -01 version of Chargeable User Identity

[Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 01:24:52PM -0400, Greg Weber wrote:
> > 
> > Are you suggesting that the RADIUS server keep state on NAS capabilities,
> > by presumably mapping NAS-Identifer/NAS-IP-Address/NAS-IPv6-Address
> > attributes to various negotiated capabilities?
> 
> Hmm. Less than ideal, but the server does already have some
> per-NAS information, e.g. shared-secret, vendor.  

Not in a proxied situation, which is the only case where CUI could even
conceivably be justified.

Keeping state in RADIUS, where there is no "connection" between client
and server to notice reboots and possible state loss, is, imho, a truly
bad idea.

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