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Re: draft-winter-radsec-01 published



Hi,

> To be clear, this fragmentation issue is a problem for RADIUS, but not
> RADSEC, correct? I'd assume that TCP MSS negotiation combined with
> Packetization Layer Path MTU discovery should make fragmentation of TCP
> segments relatively unlikely.

That is correct, a reliable transport makes this problem go away, or at least 
makes life a lot easier in that respect. Still, even though I'm quite 
enthusiastic about RadSec, I can still imagine people using just plain RADIUS 
who suffer from that problem.

> BTW, how does IPsec solve the fragmentation problem for RADIUS?  Couldn't
> it make it worse?

As I don't use RADIUS-over-IPSec myself, I asked one of our national eduroam 
operators for his practical experiences in that respect. I'll keep you 
posted.

Greetings,

Stefan Winter

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