Changes in v3

[Arran Cudbard-Bell]

On 6 May 2013, at 18:07, Alan DeKok <aland at DEPLOYINGRADIUS.COM> wrote:

> A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk wrote:
>> just wondering what happends when our FR 3 server with all this goodness
>> and local configuration with massive attributes goes and sends such stuff to a 
>> pre 3.0 server or some other RADIUS server? 
> 
>  Nothing.
> 
>  RFC 6929 *allows* for longer attributes.  But since no one uses them,
> there's no issue.  And the format is designed to be transparent to
> legacy servers.  They just pass the attributes without looking at them.
> 
>  RFC 6929 also has text about how to do RADIUS properly.  i.e. issues
> like the IAS nonsense with Operator-Name are now expressly forbidden.


And for other attributes they'll be truncated at 253 bytes at encode time.

Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb at freeradius.org>
FreeRADIUS Development Team