returning a HEX String as a HEX String (bit string) instead of the decimal equivalent - FreeRADIUS 2.1.10

[Andy]

Ahh,

"No. The HP switch does not care that FreeRADIUS displayed (but later 
encoded correctly) your hex string as an integer.

It does care that you don't seem to understand how to convert decimal 
numbers to hex and are actually specifying VLAN 18 tagged, which 
probably doesn't exist if you're getting errors.

You want 0x3100000C for VLAN 12 tagged."

I apologise!

I can't believe I did that! How stupid of me to not actually convert 
the VLAN number! I just got thrown when I saw the base 16 to base 10 
conversion and got stuck on that..

Serves me right for trying to figure these things out after mid night 
when I should have been sleeping..

Thanks, Andy.



On Mon 05 Aug 2013 23:59:36 BST, Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
>
> On 5 Aug 2013, at 23:39, Andy <andy at brandwatch.com
> <mailto:andy at brandwatch.com>> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> This is my first post here so please excuse any missed etiquette.
>>
>> I have read through the wiki's and googled a lot and not found anything.
>
> http://wiki.freeradius.org/vendor/HP#RFC-4675-(multiple-tagged/untagged-VLAN)-Assignment
>
> *sigh*
>
>> I have been trying configure our switch ports (HP 2910al) with Tagged
>> VLANs via Egress-VLANID and Egress-VLAN-Name.
>>
>> The Radius backend is OpenLDAP, and I have tried setting the data
>> type in OpenLDAP to binary, UTF-8 and IA5, but no matter what I do,
>> the value returned by RADIUS is the decimal equivalent of the HEX bit
>> string I enter :(
>>
>> For example I'm trying to store and send 0x31000012 to indicate a
>> tagged VLAN (0x31) on VLAN 12. But looking at freeradius -X output I
>> can see it sending the decimal number, when the switch wants the bit
>> string as it was stored, and hence throws an error!
>
> No. The HP switch does not care that FreeRADIUS displayed (but later
> encoded correctly) your hex string as an integer.
>
> It does care that you don't seem to understand how to convert decimal
> numbers to hex and are actually specifying VLAN 18 tagged, which
> probably doesn't exist if you're getting errors.
>
> You want 0x3100000C for VLAN 12 tagged.
>
> -Arran
>
>
>
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