problem with oracle scheme - table radacct

[Peter Nixon]

On Mon 10 Apr 2006 23:21, Mathieu Legare wrote:
> Using freeradius 1.1.0 on RHEL 4.0 update 3 with Oracle 9 database
> backend for accounting, we discovered the following problem while trying
> to add our wireless stuff to our RADIUS system. We've been using the
> current setup for PPP login with a Cisco access server without any
> problem.
>
> So the NAS is a Nortel WLAN Security Switch 2380 (more or less a Trapeze
> device if i am not mistaken).  The WLAN switch sends a "start
> accounting" packet, unfortunalety the content of the %{NAS-Port-Id}
> variable that the WLAN switch sends seems to be in the following format:
> "2049/1" which is NOT a NUMERIC(12) (or integer if using the MySQL
> driver). This cause an ORA-01722 error . We've changed the NasPortId
> field type to VARCHAR2(15) to fix the problem.
>
> I really don't know if changing the type of the NasPortId field to
> varchar2 can introduce other problems, so far we haven't notice any.

Although I have not seen this type of value previously the RFC does device 
NAS-Port-Id as string so I will update all of the sample schemas to take this 
into account.

Regards

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Peter Nixon
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