(RADIATOR) CVX VSAs (again, sorry)

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello John -

The story is that the latest version of Radiator supports both types 
of CVX attributes (1 octet and 4 octet) and tries to do "the right 
thing" (although its a bit tough with no official attribute 
definitions).

What version of Radaitor are you running?

regards

Hugh

At 10:31 PM -0500 6/18/01, John Coy wrote:
>Hey guys,
>
>I never really got a good answer on the extended VSA support
>on the Nortel CVX chassis and Radiator.  I noticed from the
>Aptis RADIUS dictionary (which uses some kind of macro language)
>that some of the VSAs are different than the others.  There's
>a line that says:
>
>#
># The CVX supports both regular and extended format VSAs
>#
>MACRO AptisVSA1(t,s) 26 [vid=2637 type1=%t% len1=+2 data=%s%]
>MACRO AptisVSA4(t,s) 26 [vid=2637 type4=%t% len1=+5 data=%s%]
>
>Everything is the same excep that "type4" and "type1" field, and
>the "lenl" field (+2 vs +5).  I'm not exactly sure what those values
>mean, but I was hoping that Hugh or Mike might be able to explain
>it?
>
>In any case, one of the attributes I'm interested looks like this
>in the Aptis dictionary:
>
>#
># VSA definitions with 4-octet sub-attribute types
>#
>ATTRIBUTE CVX-PPP-ConnectLimit AptisVSA4(0x85210066, integer) r
>
>Here's the same entry in my RADIUS dictionary (obtained
>from the distribution dictionary):
>
>VENDORATTR 2637 CVX-PPP-ConnectLimit            0x85210066 integer
>
>The hex code and the vendor ID is the same, but I am a bit concerned
>about that "4-octet sub-attribute type" issue.  It seems that
>all of the attributes defined as "4-octet sub-attribute types" in
>the Aptis dictionary do not work properly in the RADIATOR dictionary.
>
>However, I am receiving/sending the CVX VSAs with "1-octet 
>sub-attribute types"
>(for example, CVX-Identification, CVX-VPOP-ID, etc).
>
>If you guys could look at this I'd really appreciate it.... I think
>it's broken, but I don't know enough about it to be sure.  If I can
>help in *any* way let me know.
>
>Here's a link to that Aptis RADIUS dictionary:
>http://zipdial.ziplink.net/docs/aptis-dict.html if you want to take
>a gander.
>
>John Coy
>Arkansas.Net
>
>
>
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