encoding of ADSL-Agent-Circuit-Id

[Alan DeKok]

Pshem Kowalczyk wrote:
> I've noticed that encoding of these two attributes:
> 
> ADSL-Agent-Circuit-Id
> ADSL-Agent-Remote-Id
> 
> has been changed from string to octets (from 3.0.3 to 3.0.4), when the
> RFC (4679) states them as strings:

  The RFC "string" type is binary octets.  Read RFC 2865.

> What was the reason for the change?

  The original RFCs didn't distinguish between printable strings and
binary data.

  FreeRADIUS uses "strings" for printable strings, and "octets" for
binary data.  Because I made that change before the RFCs were fixed.

  The RFCs use "text" for printable strings and "string" for binary
data.  But they use "octets" everywhere to *refer* to binary data.

  It's annoying.

  Alan DeKok.