hi all! to verify some network devices which want to connect to a switch we want to use radius and store the mac-addresses in ldap. the switch passes the ethernet-mac-address to radius which should then be checked against the ldap entry for dhcp, there is an attribte dhcpHWAddress we already use successfully for dhcp. the dhcpHWAddress contains something like "ethernet 00:0e:35:c4:70:a8". how can i teach radius to use just the octect value (without the word "ethernet"=) of this attribute? i assume that i have to define something like 'filter = "dhcpHWAddress=%u" ', but how to strip of "ethernet"? thanks in advance for any tipps! regards, markus -- Markus Krause email: krause@biochem.mpg.de Computing Center Tel.: 089 - 89 40 85 99 Group Lottspeich / Proteomics Fax.: 089 - 89 40 85 98 --------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using https://webmail.biochem.mpg.de If you encounter any problems please report to rz-linux@biochem.mpg.de