radsniff behaviour change?

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Fri Dec 3 09:19:26 CET 2010


Brian Candler wrote:
> As of 2.1.10, radsniff doesn't decode packets automatically without -x:
...
> Looking at the code, it doesn't even read the dictionary unless you add -x
> (debug) or -F (filter). This change was made in commit 7a85628d
> 
> I wonder if this logic is unintentionally broken, and in fact you meant to
> load the dictionary *unless* -F is present?

  The attribute names are needed only when they're being printed.  So
the code should be fixed to not load the dictionaries when it's writing
PCAP files.  In all other situations, it should load them.

  Alan DeKok.



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