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RE: RADIUS User-Name versus EAP Identity



 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-radiusext@ops.ietf.org 
> [mailto:owner-radiusext@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf Of Alan DeKok
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 10:43 PM
> To: Bernard Aboba
> Cc: radiusext@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: RADIUS User-Name versus EAP Identity
> 
> Bernard Aboba wrote:
> > [BA] Yes, in most cases the implementation should use the RADIUS 
> > User-Name Attribute instead.  There might be a few cases 
> where the EAP 
> > method calculations depend on the EAP-Response/Identity (RFC 
> > 3748-defined methods such as EAP-MD5).  Are you seeing 
> problems only 
> > with those methods, or with other ones as well?
> 
>   The problems are across all EAP methods.
> 
[Joe]This is strange, many EAP methods do not rely upon the
EAP-Response/Identity.  What are the problems you are seeing?   

> > BTW, RFC 5113 Section 2.3 does talk a bit about this issue:
> ...
> >    Over the long term, it is expected that the need for NAI 
> "decoration"
> >    and source routing will disappear
> 
>   The solution that has been proposed in vendor forums 
> removes the need for source routing.  Even if we ignore the 
> User-Name versus EAP-Identity issues (which exist), the 
> manual updates of routes in RADIUS proxy infrastructures is 
> becoming prohibitive.
> 
>   Alan DeKok.
> 
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