Single RADIUS Class attribute supported by HP's Comware - Bug or Enhancement?

[Stefan Winter]

Hi,

> Alan D or Stefan W should be able to comment on half implementations of 
> 'SHOULDS' and whether they're compliant or not.

The thread unveiled two issues:

* values with a length "near" 253 characters might cause undesired behaviour
* several instances of Class are ignored; only the first instance is
returned

For the former case, this would be clearly a bug. The RFC very clearly
states that the data type is String, which can be up to 253 bytes. Not
delivering this in the product IMHO means it is violating the spec outright.

For the latter issue, a "SHOULD" and its equivalent "RECOMMENDED" has a
well-defined meaning in theory ("

SHOULD
 This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there
   may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a
   particular item, but the full implications must be understood and
   carefully weighed before choosing a different course.

")

[RFC 2119, section 3.3]

but in practice this just means "Ignore it if you want" (because there
are always some "particular circumstances" if you need an excuse).

So when the client receives N Class attributes, yes, it SHOULD send them
all back, but if it doesn't, too bad.

Greetings,

Stefan

> 
> Annoyingly the RFC doesn't provide an upper bound, and that might be why 
> they only chose to store a single attribute given the extremely memory
> constrained environment code is running in.
> 
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