header enrichment

[Guy Davies]

Hi Mauro,

VSA means Vendor Specific Attribute.  Vendors can provide 'private'
attribute value pairs (AVPs) that are only understood by their
equipment so that you can send them information that is not supported
natively by the standard RADIUS protocol.

If the vendor of your device that would actually perform the header
enrichment function can make a query to a RADIUS server based on some
'username' derived from the information available to it (would the
user have to login via a web portal first?) then the RADIUS server
could return attributes associated with that user.  You could
theoretically create 'groups' that relate to particular handsets/UA
strings and return attributes based on that info, but you still have
to have a username.

Rgds,

Guy

On 29/02/2008, mauro <zedder_hallen at yahoo.it> wrote:
>
>
> thanks , this can really helps my.
> So you suggest to investigate about supported RADIUS attributes
> admitelly I'm not ARADIUS expert and I don't know what VSA means.
> but I think we can procede togheter, also if we could find a way to
> introduce Freeradius
> into the Mobile Network.
> if you think we are OT please feel free to contact me privately
> to not disturb the list
> thanks very much
>
>
>
> >If there is a RADIUS attribute/VSA that can be interpreted by the
> >RADIUS client as containing the information required to enrich your
> >headers, and the client then does the right thing with the Value of
> >that AV pair, then yes, it can be done.  If the RADIUS client cannot
> >take the information from a specific AVP, then no it cannot be done
> >without development work by your client vendor (nothing the server can
> >do to force it).
>
> Hope that helps,
>
>
>  ________________________________
> ________________________________
> L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail
> -
>  List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See
> http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
>