Bjørn Mork wrote:
I fail to see how that is wrong. It *is* the NASes Calling Station identificator. What do you suggest a PPPoE concentrator should use?
Something better. VSAs, even. Using random fields in random "printable" formats is a bad idea. RADIUS has the concept of "attributes". These attributes have names, specific meanings, and well-defined formats. I have no idea why many vendors are unable to use them.
Yes, I know RFC 2865 says "phone number". But if fails to say anything about the situation where there is no originating phone number. So vendors use what they have. And port/vlan/mac is the best they can do unless they have some PPPoE intermediate agent information.
So define VSAs. Other vendors have. It's not hard. Alan DeKok.