(RADIATOR) Client - group by subnet

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Hugh Irvine wrote:

Hi Hugh,

> We've looked at this several times, but we haven't been able to come up with 
> a suitable solution.
>
> The problem is unbounded memory usage if the Client definition isn't done 
> correctly, and we consider this an unacceptable possibility.

Can you elaborate on this? In what way could a Client definition use
unlimited amounts of memory?

Would the problem be like if someone accidentally gives a /2 instead
of a /24 and you'd then explode that to a list of single addresses?
Or is it something different maybe affecting runtime?


Regards,
Bjoern

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