RE: [RADIUS FIXES] Authorize Only / RADIUS layering

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

Emile van Bergen writes...

> > The problem I see with the use of RADIUS as a transport mechanism
for
> > other applications is that it leads to poor multi-vendor
> > interoperability.
> 
> Why? That depends entirely on how well those other applications are
> standardized.
> 
> The fact that TCP doesn't talk about web browsing isn't the cause of
> browser vendor incompatibilities.

I suppose that's an apt analogy if you consider RADIUS to *be* a
transport layer protocol.  I have always considered it to be an
application layer protocol.


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