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RE: RADIUS Calling-Station-Id for WiMAX
- To: "Alan DeKok" <aland@deployingradius.com>
- Subject: RE: RADIUS Calling-Station-Id for WiMAX
- From: "Matt Holdrege" <Matt.Holdrege@strixsystems.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:32:22 -0700
- 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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-----Original Message-----
From: Alan DeKok [mailto:aland@deployingradius.com]
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.
Hah! Never let engineering get in the way of standards development.
-Matt
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