Decoding complex CableLabs-Event-Message

[Alan DeKok]

Laurent Debacker wrote:
> We would like to use FreeRadius to decode Cablelabs accounting messages,
> as specified in
> http://www.cablelabs.com/packetcable/downloads/specs/PKT-SP-EM-I12-05812.pdf.

  After reading that spec... those guys are crazy.  They invented their
own format, and didn't even use sub-TLVs.  It will be a LOT of work to
get this done.

  It's not difficult work.  It's just that the document specifies a lot
of "one off" data formats.  This means every single case has to be
handled by writing code.  If they had used a generic format, then we
could have done a "dictionary to attribute" mapping as with normal RADIUS.

  Alan DeKok.