Re: RadiusNT 1.16.60 & SteelHead - Wrong NAS address

Danny Sinang ( (no email) )
Mon, 30 Jun 1997 07:37:52 -0000

Then do you know anyone in MS who I can request to add these features ?
There doesn't appear to be anybody I can contact in MS who would respond
personally.

- Danny Sinang

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> From: Dale E. Reed Jr. <daler@iea.com>
> To: RadiusNT@emerald.iea.com
> Subject: Re: RadiusNT 1.16.60 & SteelHead - Wrong NAS address
> Date: Sunday, June 29, 1997 2:58 AM
>
>
> On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Danny Sinang wrote:
>
> > What do you mean when you say that the accounting is hardly useful ?
>
> It does not send enough accounting information. Specifically,
> it is *NOT* RFC copliant in that the accounting is missing many
> REQIRED fields, like Acct-Session-ID and such. It also doesn't
> include a NAS-Identifier or NAS-IP-Address field (the RFC says
> one or the other SHOULD be included). It also doesn't include
> a NAS-Port or NAS-Port-Type field (RFC says one or both on
> those). Its an MS kludge and its a really bad one.
>
> Because of this, you won't be able to do concurrency control
> (one of the main things people want RADIUS support for), you
> won't be able to track who is on-line, and billing will be
> challenging, at best. Heck, you couldn't even tell whether
> two accounting packets where dupes or not, and thats scarey
> for billing. Thats what I mean by "hardly useful".
>
> > And what did you mean that only Radius 2.2.21will work with SteelHead ?
> > Will Radius 2.2.21 be able to get the complete accounting info from
> > SteelHead ?
>
> Again, they went off on their own tangent and used the CHAP
> attribute 61 (recently adding to RADIUS, most likely for MS)
> that no one else uses. The only reported server that works
> with it is Shiva's. If you do to two registry changes as
> mentioned here, you can get PAP working. RadiusNT has added
> support for attribute 61, which allows native CHAP to work
> with SteelHead.
>
> Dale
>
>
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