Pshem Kowalczyk wrote:
> I've noticed that encoding of these two attributes:
>
> ADSL-Agent-Circuit-Id
> ADSL-Agent-Remote-Id
>
> has been changed from string to octets (from 3.0.3 to 3.0.4), when the
> RFC (4679) states them as strings:
The RFC "string" type is binary octets. Read RFC 2865.
> What was the reason for the change?
The original RFCs didn't distinguish between printable strings and
binary data.
FreeRADIUS uses "strings" for printable strings, and "octets" for
binary data. Because I made that change before the RFCs were fixed.
The RFCs use "text" for printable strings and "string" for binary
data. But they use "octets" everywhere to *refer* to binary data.
It's annoying.
Alan DeKok.