Re: Vendor-Specific Attribute

Dale E. Reed Jr. ( (no email) )
Fri, 28 Aug 1998 22:49:52 -0700

Edsonet wrote:
>
> From the dictionary file on the NetBlazer I recovered the Telebit Vendor ID
> as 117 and entered it into the RadVendors table as <117 Telebit>. I then
> modified the RadAttributes table as follows:
>
> RadAttributeID Name Type RadVendorID RadVendorType
> 26 Vendor-Specific 0 117 4
>
> The NetBlazer dictionary does not list anything like RadVendorType, but
> instead lists something called "sub-attributes", which is where I got the
> "4" from in the following lines in the dictionary:

Thats just the RadiusNT field name. You are correct here, though.

> # provide additional accounting information (string with $
> variables)
> ATTRIBUTE Telebit-Accounting-Info 4 string
>
> I then instructed the NetBlazer to pass the variables $line and
> $connect_speed under the Vendor-Specific attribute in the accounting start
> line.
>
> What else do I have to do? Also, can I delete unused fields in the Calls
> table?

It looks like you have it setup right. You should make sure you are
using RadiusNT 2.5.134 for the corrections to the VSA support. You can
removed unwanted fields from the calls tale.

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