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

[Alex Sharaz]

Works here just fine. Once you've created the correctly formatted value for the radius attribute FR displays it as an integer but whatever happens in the background the HP switch just "does its  stuff "
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On 6 Aug 2013, at 00:39, Andy <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.
> 
> 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!
> 
> Is this a FreeRADIUS thing or an OpenLDAP data type thing?
> 
> Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated as I'm stuck.
> Thanks in advance, Andy.
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