Re: Request for Review: Status Server Document

[Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com>]

David B. Nelson wrote:
> Why is the Server-Status "query" packet responded to by an Access-Accept
> "reply" packet?  It seems to me that were over-loading the semantics of
> Access-Accept by using it in this way.  Maybe that's not particularly
> harmful -- I don't know for sure -- but over-loading always seems like a Bad
> Idea (tm) to me.

  Yes it's not ideal.  It's a historical practice.

> Wouldn't it have been possible to use the same Command Code (Server-Status)
> for *both* the query and response, with the context coming from who's doing
> the receiving?  I think that would be preferable, in a number of ways.

  RADIUS has traditionally used separate status codes for requests and
replies.  Using the same code for both is about as bad (IMHO) as
overloading Access-Accept.

  Alan DeKok.

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