Re: Freeradius-Users Digest, Vol 24, Issue 2

[Arran Cudbard-Bell <A.Cudbard-Bell@sussex.ac.uk>]

> > Does anyone have a draft list of which clients actually support the 
> > Reply-Message and by which methods they can recieve them?
> >     
>
>   All clients will accept it.  Very few will do anything useful with it.
>
>   
> > The reason why I ask , it during initial tests (using chap) the built in 
> > windows CHAP supplicant would display the reply-messages being sent back 
> > from the server.
> > Now we've moved on from CHAP to using EAP and the windows supplicant no 
> > longer displays the messages.
> >     
>
>   Yes.
>
>   
> > Am I right in assuming that with EAP attributes from the access-accept 
> > packet only get to the NAS and that the NAS will strip out of the EAP 
> > message
> > and pass it on to the supplicant and thats all the supplicant will ever get?
> >     
>
>   Yes.
>
>   
> > In which case, although the Reply-Message attribute is also supported in 
> > PoD the client will never actually recieve it when using EAP ?
> >     
>
>   Yes.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
>   
Ahh, Thanks for clearing that up !

Don't suppose EAP supports encoding the equivalent of a Reply-Message ?

P.S Well done for understanding my poorly punctuated morning ramblings :)

Arran