(RADIATOR) Radiator and Tagged L2TP attributes

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Onno -

How nice to hear from you - hope everything is going well?

I have copied this to Mike to ask him to have a look at if for you.

regards

Hugh



>Hi All,
>
>I am trying to send tagged tunneling attributes with radiator and having
>some problems. I have read the FAQ/manual as per
>"40. Does Radiator support the IETF Radius Tunnelling attributes? Yes. There
>are a few tricks to using them though. " but this does not help me. I need
>to be able to send (several other radius servers support this, before you
>ask) sending arbitrary tunneling attributes with arbitrary tags. Your FAQ
>suggests that all tags should be zero - this is not so.
>
>The profile I want to send is like this, (using 1: to denote a tag of 1 on
>that attribute as per certain other radius's syntax)
>
>tunnel-assignment-ID=1:"ISP"
>tunnel-server-endpoint=1:"192.168.100.1"
>tunnel-type=1:l2tp
>tunnel-medium=1:ip
>tunnel-assignment-ID=2:"ISP"
>tunnel-server-endpoint=2:"192.168.100.2"
>tunnel-type=2:l2tp
>tunnel-medium=2:ip
>
>I simplified this out for testing to just one endpoint definition, with just
>one tag value, i.e.
>
>tunnel-assignment-ID=1:"ISP"
>tunnel-server-endpoint=1:"192.168.100.1"
>tunnel-type=1:l2tp
>tunnel-medium=1:ip
>
>The syntax for how to express this in a radiator config is file is where I
>am having problems. I tried using this radiator config:
>
>tunnel-assignment-ID="\001ISP"
>tunnel-server-endpoint="\001192.168.100.1"
>tunnel-type=\001l2tp
>tunnel-medium=\001ip
>
>the first two string attributes come out tagged with "1" as expected, they
>work. The second two integer ones get screwed up because radiator appears to
>treat the \001 as part of the value, can't look it up in the lookup table,
>and ends up sending a value of zero with a tag of zero (which is useless,
>and breaks the tunnel setup). If I define them without the \001
>in front, they get sent untagged by radiator, which still breaks the tunnel
>setup as its getting some attributes with a 0 tag and some with a
>1.
>
>basically what it comes down to is that I cannot work out how, in the
>radiator configuration file, to configure a user radius profile to have
>non-zero tagged values of the tunnel-type and tunnel-medium attributes, and
>thus cannot get tagged tunneling to work properly. I've guessed
>at/experimented with various ways I thought you might have implemented the
>configuration of non-zero tags, couldn't get any to work.
>
>regards,
>
>
>Onno
>
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