Re: too long Calling Station Ids

Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com> writes:

Josip Rodin wrote:

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Just ran across this IRL:

Calling-Station-Id: GigabitEthernet 1/0/3.2045:2045#587202578###pppoe c0:d0:44:e4:cf:3b#

Arg. That's a *stupid* thing to do.

It would have been saner to define VSAs to hold all of this information, or to re-use the standard attributes.

I fail to see how that is wrong. It *is* the NASes Calling Station identificator. What do you suggest a PPPoE concentrator should use? 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. Bjørn