Converting attributes from hex to ASCII

[Aaron Paetznick]

I'm receiving User-Name and various Cisco-AVPair attributes as hex.

The situation is complicated.  We have a Calix NAS doing something 
called DHCP-triggered RADIUS accounting through a Cisco ASR.  This means 
neither vendor wants to accept responsibility, and here we are.

I just thought it would be nice if FreeRADIUS supported a perl-like 
regex system for manipulating strings.  I think I'll have to try to fix 
this by jiggering the SQL.

I just wanted to see if anybody else has dealt with something like this.


--Aaron


Alan DeKok wrote:
> Aaron Paetznick wrote:
>> I am receiving certain accounting attributes as hex encoded strings,
> 
>   Why?  Which attributes are they?
> 
>> and
>> I would like to convert them back to cleartext ASCII before sending them
>> to MySQL.
>>
>> I can't simply update the SQL with UNHEX() functions, as not all of the
>> requests are hex encoded this way.
> 
>   It sounds like the NAS is broken.  Not that I'm surprised...
> 
>> If I could use perl, I would do something like this:
> 
>   Why not use Perl?  The server doesn't have generic string handling
> functions, and I don't see the need to invent yet another language.
> 
>   Alan DeKok.
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