length of data greater than 253

[Cristian Novac]

wlan at mac.com wrote:
>
> On Mar 27, 2008, at 9:09 AM, Cristian Novac wrote:
> [...]
>> I think this solution may work for me too(splitting the attribute); 
>> could you tell me how have you done this?because implicitly 
>> freeradius doesn't do the split;
>> Do you have a patch for this?
>
> No patch required, as you are just inserting vendor specific 
> attributes and coding the logic behind the VSAs.
>
> Assuming you are using a VSA (which always requires a bit of client 
> and server support), you can chunk up your data into individual 
> attributes and insert them in order into the request. Server-side, 
> simply reassemble - much like an EAP-Message.
>

I would like to be able to put in a reply list of attributes of a user, 
in "users" file from the server,one attribute whitch is longer than 253 
B; then...radius server to process this attribute and split it in two or 
more new attributes. Could you just tell what part of the source code 
should I concern about in order to do this....

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>
>
> On Mar 27, 2008, at 9:25 AM, Alan DeKok wrote:
> [...]
>>   It doesn't do that because there's no standard way to do it.
>>
>
> EAP-Message is at least an example - and why one can be assured that 
> attributes maintain their ordering in the packet, no?
>
>>   If you want to have longer attributes, you need to modify *both* the
>> client and the server.  In most cases, you can't modify the client (e.g.
>> commercial equipment), so modifying the server is a waste of time.
>>
>
> What if you aren't using commercial equipment and _do_ have control 
> over both client and server :)
>
> David
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