(freeradius 2.1.12) I have noticed an inconsistency when there are duplicate dictionary entries for the same attribute, in particular this one from dictionary.redback: ATTRIBUTE Qos-Policy-Metering 88 string ATTRIBUTE Qos-Metering-Profile-Name 88 string When radtest/radclient is decoding response packets it uses the second entry (this makes sense, it's the last entry read which takes precedence). However the debug output from freeradius -X displays the first entry instead. Example: $ echo -e 'User-Name = "foo@example.com"\nCalling-Station-Id="12345678"\nNAS-IP-Address=255.255.255.244\n' | radclient localhost auth testing123 Received response ID 166, code 2, length = 68 Qos-Metering-Profile-Name = "24M_P" Double-Authentication = 1 but freeradius -X shows: ... Sending Access-Accept of id 67 to 127.0.0.1 port 42234 Qos-Policy-Metering := "24M_P" Double-Authentication := 1 Finished request 0. Going to the next request Waking up in 4.9 seconds. Cleaning up request 0 ID 67 with timestamp +2 This is only significant because I have a GUI wrapper with a radtest function which displays the debug output. This uses the control socket to inject the packet, so I get slightly different output from freeradius -X, but it also shows the first dictionary entry: ... Injected Access-Accept packet to host 127.0.0.1 port 0 code=2, id=3 Qos-Policy-Metering := "24M_P" Double-Authentication := 1 Finished request 3. Going to the next request Thread 44 waiting to be assigned a request Anyway, this suggests to me that there may be two different code paths for looking up attribute numbers to names; maybe they could be unified? Regards, Brian.