RE: [Help-gnu-radius] Vendor-Specific attribute format in users file

[Rahim Pirbhai]

Thanks for your help, Sergey.
I created an alcatel file, and I added the equivalent $INCLUDE entry the
dictionary file.
In the alcatel file, the VENDOR number is 637, and I added an attribute with
id 1:

BEGIN VENDOR Alcatel 637
ATTRIBUTE       OssClient-functionProfile        1      string

END

Can you please tell me how the NAS will be able to retrieve this attribute
from the radius response? I see that I cannot simply use the
"Vendor-Specific" attribute id (26) to retrieve my custom attribute because
"26" encompasses many vendor attributes.

Thanks,
Rahim

-----Original Message-----
From: Sergey Poznyakoff [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 3:49 PM
To: Rahim Pirbhai
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Help-gnu-radius] Vendor-Specific attribute format in users
file

> Can you please tell me if the format below is acceptable? If not can 
> you please tell me what the appropriate format should be?

No, it is not. If you wish to return Alcatel-OssClient-functionProfile
attribute, first declare it in a dictionary file (see
http://www.gnu.org/software/radius/manual/html_node/radius_36.html#SEC85,
make sure that your definition matches with what the NAS expects to see),
then add this dictionary file to the set of dictionaries Radius loads at
startup, and then your users entry will be:
 
support Auth-Type = Accept,
                 Simultaneous-Use = 1
         Service-Type = Framed-User,
                 Framed-Protocol = PPP,
                 Alcatel-OssClient-functionProfile = testFn
 
Regards,
Sergey