Johan & Richard
From: Feyaerts Johan <Johan.Feyaerts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Vendor-ID CoSine support for RADIUS
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 10:32:09 +0200
> Ideally allmost all radius attribute decoders could be derived from some
> kind of radius directory file (as delivered with some public domain radius
> server daemons) but that would require a serious amount of work. It would
> require writing a parser and replacing the arrays of static data with
> dynamic data structures that are filled in at startup time. That's why I
> went for the quick and dirty way in the first version of the radius decoder
> :-(
Agreed. Not only for VSAs but also for IETF standard attributes, we
eventually need to have a way to derive a decoder from a sort of a
dictionary file. Until that happens, let's go like this though I have
to admit that this is a bit ugly:-)
Regards,
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