FREE RADIUS client

karnik jain karnik.jain at gmail.com
Tue Feb 8 07:47:05 CET 2011


Hello B.Candler,

Thank you so much sir for replying back.
It is really helpful to my research on RADIUS client.

Thanks,
Karnik
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 05:07:03PM +0530, karnik jain wrote:
> >    I am talking about radclient only.
> >    If supplied USER-NAme is not UTF-8 encoded by some means
> >    suppose the scenario where UTF-8 support is not there then
> >    at that time what radclient does.
> >
> >    Does it send the same multilingual charcters to the RADIUS server or
> >    first of all convert that into UTF-8 as per RFC 2865 and send it to
> >    RADIUS server in ACCESS REQUEST packet as attribute or
> >    just send as it is to RADIUS server?
>
> It just sends the bytes as-is.
>
> If you have data in another encoding, which you want to convert to UTF-8
> for
> sending, then you need to transcode it yourself first using something like
> 'iconv'.
>
> In any case, the data which you provide to radclient needs to use the
> standard ASCII characters for equals, double-quotes and so on, so that it
> can parse the lines. UTF-8 fulfils that requirement.
>
> HTH,
>
> Brian.
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