how to get vendor specific attribute value

Noura Kossentini kossentini.noura at gmail.com
Fri Oct 8 11:49:20 CEST 2010


Hi
but why wireshark can see other attributes (like Idle-Timeout, service-type
...) without having dictionary.rfc2865??

2010/10/8 Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>

> Noura Kossentini wrote:
> > Hi
> > but the issue is from free radius response why it send unknown
> > attribute??? is there sometink that lack??
>
>   Yes.  Wireshark doesn't have copies of the dictionary.  The
> dictionaries are required to decode the attribute.  This is how
> FreeRADIUS works.
>
> > May be I have problem in adding new VSA dictionary file into Freeradius,
>
>   You didn't add it to wireshark.
>
> > But I found unknown attribute sent in the ethereal trace even though I
> > defined it in a customer dictionary.
>
>   That's how RADIUS works.
>
>  Alan DeKok.
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