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Re: RADIUS Calling-Station-Id for WiMAX
- To: Matt Holdrege <Matt.Holdrege@strixsystems.com>
- Subject: Re: RADIUS Calling-Station-Id for WiMAX
- From: Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:25:46 +0200
- Cc: Mike Bean <bean@alcatel-lucent.com>, "David B. Nelson" <d.b.nelson@comcast.net>, Avi Lior <avi@bridgewatersystems.com>, Glen Zorn <glenzorn@comcast.net>, Ray Bell <ray@grid-net.com>, Bernard Aboba <bernard_aboba@hotmail.com>, "Congdon, Paul T (ProCurve)" <paul.congdon@hp.com>, radiusext@ops.ietf.org, Dan Romascanu <dromasca@avaya.com>
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Matt Holdrege wrote:
> If your RADIUS server only needs to work with those devices, then you
> are fine. However Alcatel-Lucent (as one example) has thousands upon
> thousands of other installed NAS ports that use octets. If network
> operators want a RADIUS server that serves both these NAS ports as well
> as WiMax devices, you had better be thinking about backwards
> compatibility.
In the interim, your AAA server could see the 6-octet format, and
auto-convert it to the RFC 3580 format for standards compliance.
This is the path taken by at least one server I know of. :)
Alan DeKok.
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