Huawei dictionary updates

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Fri Sep 6 13:20:32 UTC 2024


On Sep 6, 2024, at 4:54 AM, nabble at felix.world wrote:
> We had issues with some Huawei switches where the VP-Tuples could not be populated to the python module. 
> Turns out, that the dictionary file of Huawei is outdated or at least, the switches we have use a different definition. 
> ...
> I’ve not gone through every attribute from the Huawei. 
> Before I open a PR on GitHub I wanted to ask if there is a general process in those dictionary files. Because there will be several devices out there which have the old definition from Huawei. Therefore just changing the dictionary file sound a bit dangerous but FreeRADIUS has also no chance to apply dictionary files based on the version of the switches. 

  It's possible to edit the dictionary files locally, but it is a problem.

> So is there a process (I couldn't think of one) instead of just updating the dictionary files? 

  Unfortunately, no.

  We're looking at fixing this in v4, but that work is ongoing.

  Alan DeKok.



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