how do I define in my dictionary the vendor of format Extended-Vendor-Specific-1

[Alan DeKok]

On Jun 12, 2015, at 6:24 AM, Vereecke, Katrien (Katrien) <katrien.vereecke at alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
> I am using freeradius-server-3.0.8.
> 
> I am trying to use the extended-vendor-sepcific-1 attribute as specified in RC6929.

  That's good...

> How can I indicate in my dictionary that the vendor must be according to the extended-vendor-specific format?

  Hmm... the "man dictionary" documentation is wrong, unfortunately.  I'll fix that.  You should do something like:

BEGIN-VENDOR	FreeRADIUS	format=Extended-Vendor-Specific-1
ATTRIBUTE	FreeRADIUS-Blah-Blah		1 integer

END-VENDOR	FreeRADIUS


> I added the following in a new dictionary file:
> VENDOR          Alcatel-IPD-Ext-1               241.26.6527

  That won't work.

> BEGIN-VENDOR    Alcatel-IPD-Ext-1
> ATTRIBUTE   Alc-Ext-TestAttr-1  1  integer
> END-VENDOR      Alcatel-IPD-Ext-1
> 
> This gives no problems when starting the radius server, but the attribute is not sent in the extended-vendor-specific format but still in the old way VSA.

  I'll poke the dictionary parser to make it more robust.

> I found in the http://freeradius.org/radiusd/man/dictionary.txt that :

  That's wrong.  I've pushed a fix.

> "You  can  also  use  "format=Extended-Vendor-Specific-1",  through
>   "format=Extended-Vendor-Specific-6".   These  define  VSAs   in the
>   "extended vendor-specific" space"
> 
> but this gives errors :
> Errors reading dictionary: dict_init: /usr/local/share/freeradius/dictionary.alcatel.sr.ext[15]: Invalid format for VENDOR.  Expected text like "1,1", got "Extended-Vendor-Specific-1"
> 
> Could you please help in how this should be done?

  Grab the v3.0.x branch from https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/

  That will work.

  Alan DeKok.