Reccomended switches for dynamic vlans

Hugh Messenger hugh at alaweb.com
Sun Jul 15 19:48:42 CEST 2007


Peter Nixon said:
> Yep. The problem I have with this change though is that what are the other
> vendor disconnect keys? If you read the RFC it doesn't specify a specific
> key (Alan has been holding ongoing discussions about this on the ietf-
> radext
> list), just that there should be enough info to identify the correct
> session. As Cisco also uses it (and Juniper from AFAIK)
> XAscendSessionSvrKey
> has become a de-facto standard along with MS-Primary-DNS-Server and its
> ilk.
> Given that it is possible to send and have work a Disconnect-Request
> containing only a User-Name and there is no-where specified that there
> should be an individual session key I am not sure its worth changing
> unless
> someone can come up with a concrete example of a vendor who uses a session
> key thats different.... Is there?

I don't know of any, but as more gear starts to support PoD / CoA /
Disconnect-Message / whatever, I'm sure they'll crop up.  Mark my words, the
Atlanta Scientific Tanning Salons and Wireless Switches latest model
TanNSurf-5000 will implement TanNSurf-Disconnect-Key at some point.

I guess I just don't like contributing to the de-facto
standardizationificationism of vendor specific attributes.  And besides
which, XAscendSessionSvrKey is a biatch to type.  :)

Your call.  You (one of) Da Man.

> Peter Nixon

   -- hugh





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