RadSec FR3.0 to Radiator: "Received packet will be too large"

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Thu Feb 23 09:43:37 CET 2012


Alan Buxey wrote:
> interesting....a RADSEC packet can be much bigger than that too - 2048 gives some room for a big
> certificate - but not if its double-chained with intermediate and its got a nice security size
> instead of being a little 512bit RSA one.  typically EAP-TLS can be fragmented on the server due
> to it going through to the end-clients ..and being UDP things get a little nasty...whereas with RADSEC
> theres no reason why a single TCP request couldnt be quite large and needing to be fragmented
> by the routers....

  That is hidden from the server.  It's just receiving a stream of data,
not packets.

  IIRC, the TLS "packets" over TCP can be up to 64K in length.  So I
suppose that the server should handle that.

  Oh well... more changes.

  Alan DeKok.



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