DB valid fields

Stephen kbaegis at gmail.com
Sat Oct 20 00:42:07 CEST 2018


I don't know what to say to this. There's not really much room left for
a discussion, frankly.

Found what I was looking for entirely without this line:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2865#section-5.6

On 10/19/18 4:27 PM, Alan DeKok wrote:
> In Oct 19, 2018, at 5:44 PM, Stephen <kbaegis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have no idea what you're talking about.
>   It helps to understand how RADIUS works.  And to assume that you can learn from the people who are trying to help you.
>
>> This is my own environment
>> with no vendor support. I'm using dd-wrt with freeradius as well as
>> strongswan with freeradius, so the "calling station" is just dd-wrt/WPA2
>> Enterprise, or alternatively strongswan/eap-tls with MacOS, Linux and
>> Windows clients.
>   Then read the documentation for that product to see what it takes.
>
>   As for your original question:
>
>>  I would love to
>> know where the documentation for the acceptable radreply entries is.
>   This question shows a fundamental misconception on how RADIUS works.  The short answer is that for FreeRADIUS, *all* attributes can go into the radreply table.  We don't care.  The documentation makes this fairly clear.
>
>   i.e. the documentation describes how to use the SQL module and how it works.  The documentation does *not* contain every possible configuration for every possible situation.
>
>   And yes, that's what you were asking for:
>
>> Aside from the limited and anecdotal references found there to fields
>> like `Framed-IP-Address`, where can I find a comprehensive accounting of
>> the attributes and values I can leverage in my radreply table? 
>   No such table exists.  It's up to *you* to read the documentation for the NAS to see what attributes it takes.  Asking for such "comprehensive" documentation again shows a misunderstanding of how things work.
>
>   And, a snide comment of "limited and anecdotal references found" is just not appropriate.  We don't document what Framed-IP-Address is, or what it does.  That documentation lies elsewhere.
>
>   Similarly, we don't document every possible use of every possible attribute.  Would you ask a car manufacturer for detailed specifications of every possible tire that goes on the car?  Along with tire-specific instructions for mounting, care, etc.?  No?
>
>   Then by the same logic, it's not appropriate to ask us for documentation on every possible attribute.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
>
>
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