vendor number of dictionary not working

[Meike Stone]

>> So I tried other numbers and realized, that only numbers are accepted,
>> who are smaller than 2^15. The largest working number is 32766.
>> What is going wrong here?
>
>   You're running a version of FreeRADIUS which is 5 years old.

Oops, I run the latests version(*1) from SLES11SP2 (the commercial
Version from Novell/SuSE) with all patches installed.
Upgrade to a newer version than the  vision delivered with SLES11SP2
not possible, because we loose support.
I'll open a SR

(*1) - freeradius-server-2.1.1

Thanks Meike!