My telcom incumberant allows me to authenticate my clients on his network - providing me with both ADSL and Dialup facilities - which I then sell on to my clients. I need to be able to distinguish between these two different service types. My telco sends .... %{Telkom-Access-Type} and when I (for example) look in the environment - I see TELKOM_ACCESS_TYPE either set to "dsl" or "dial" - just what I need.... but I am trying to accesss these values inside some MySQL. In my "useracct" table - I have a table value called "aces_typ" (ie - Access-Type) which contains either the word "dial" or "dsl". In my "authorize_check_query" statement - I have.... AND ( aces_typ='%{Telkom-Access-Type}' OR '%{Telkom-Access-Type}'='' ) (I also do authenticate from NAS's which do not set that value (ie - My own AS5300) - hence the check for it not being set - Hmm - how do I set that in my Cisco?) This gives (in radiusd -X) the debug warning message of.... WARNING: Attempt to use unknown xlat function, or non-existent attribute in string %{Telkom-Access-Type} So how do I correctly access and use this value???? -- . . ___. .__ Posix Systems - Sth Africa /| /| / /__ mje@posix.co.za - Mark J Elkins, SCO ACE, Cisco CCIE / |/ |ARK \_/ /__ LKINS Tel: +27 12 807 0590 Cell: +27 82 601 0496