2.x.x and radtest: no IPv6?

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Mon Jul 22 15:15:16 CEST 2013


On 22/07/13 13:47, Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
>
> It'd be nice to get some feedback from people though... do you think
> you'll ever need to record both your NAS IPv4 and IPv6 addresses?
>
> I'm guessing for dual stacking it'd be nice to record
> Framed-IP-Address and Framed-IPv6-Prefix, should they both be used to
> identify clients in areas like session management? It seems like the
> safest way of doing it to me.

Yes. It's important to record them separately, and useful for the 
reasons you suggest.

>
> But would it break things? What if the NAS started just using the SRC
> IPv6 address in packets, and source IP protection was enabled? Does
> this happen in the real world?

Not sure I follow here; can you expand on this?

>
> I don't have any experience managing an IPv6 enabled network.  Does
> anyone else? Or is it all too new?

"It's complicated".

I've replied to your email on -devel.


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