3GPP string Attributes, containing encapsulated information...

[Alan DeKok]

Stefan A. wrote:
> Is there a way to get Information out of the
> 3GPP-GPRS-Negotiated-QoS-profile?

  Perl.

> The Attribute is defined in the dictionary as:
> ATTRIBUTE	3GPP-GPRS-Negotiated-QoS-profile	5	string
> 
> The Value of a String might be: 99-0B811F7396878774010000
> 
> To get the encapsulated "Traffic Class", I will need the most left 3 bits of
> the first '7' of the string.
> It would be 7 --> 0111  -->  011  -->  3

  Ugh.  Why do people design such complicated protocols?

> Is there a function available, to do this?

  No.

  FreeRADIUS doesn't support bit-packed structures.  There isn't a lot
of reason to do that, because Perl does it much better.

  Alan DeKok.