Freeradius-Users Digest, Vol 24, Issue 2

[Arran Cudbard-Bell]

>> Does anyone have a draft list of which clients actually support the 
>> Reply-Message and by which methods they can recieve them?
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>   All clients will accept it.  Very few will do anything useful with it.
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>> The reason why I ask , it during initial tests (using chap) the built in 
>> windows CHAP supplicant would display the reply-messages being sent back 
>> from the server.
>> Now we've moved on from CHAP to using EAP and the windows supplicant no 
>> longer displays the messages.
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>   Yes.
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>> Am I right in assuming that with EAP attributes from the access-accept 
>> packet only get to the NAS and that the NAS will strip out of the EAP 
>> message
>> and pass it on to the supplicant and thats all the supplicant will ever get?
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>   Yes.
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>> In which case, although the Reply-Message attribute is also supported in 
>> PoD the client will never actually recieve it when using EAP ?
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>   Yes.
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>   Alan DeKok.
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Ahh, Thanks for clearing that up !

Don't suppose EAP supports encoding the equivalent of a Reply-Message ?

P.S Well done for understanding my poorly punctuated morning ramblings :)

Arran