I do apologize if this has been asked (I did search, but found nothing definitive, or it was my poor searching skills). We are storing all the radius accounting into MySQL, and thus far, have not had any real issues. I was asked the other day, why some of the cisco-avpairs attributes were showing up like: connect-progress=3DLAN Ses Up there were some other attributes that get these =HEX values passed and stored, and what I am wondering is, is that in the flat files, it gets stored as connect-progress=LAN Ses Up ('=3D' translates to '=') but in MySQL, it gets parsed/translated to the '=3D' style. How do I go about storing this as the '=' and not the '=3D' as well as all the other attribute values that get parsed/translated to hex characters? It doesn't appear to be the MySQL that is changing it, it looks like it is from the FreeRadius side... but I could be wrong. Thanks in advance, Steve.