Huawei dictionary updates

nabble at felix.world nabble at felix.world
Fri Sep 6 13:22:35 UTC 2024


Ok, since it’s the actually current documentation, I would create a PR or will it not get accepted? 

BR, 
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> On 6. Sep 2024, at 15:20, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 Turns out, that the dictionary file of Huawei is outdated or at least, the switches we have use a different definition.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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