At 06:48 PM 3/14/2002 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi Chris, thanks for the help! I'll give it a go right now and take a
>look at the RFC you mentioned.
>
>This may seen a naive question but i only have 5 days worth of radius
>experience under my belt, when should i/should not use VSA (like
>the tunnel VSA's in my original post)??
VSA is a Vendor Specific Attribute, IE, it only works for one vendor's
NAS. A Cisco VSA will not be understood by a 3Com NAS.
If there is a standard attribute ( non-VSA ) that does what you want,
I highly urge the use of that, over the VSA, as it will be more portable.
If there isn't a standard attribute to accomplish it, then you don't have
a choice, so you have to use the VSA.
I come from a multi-vendor NAS environment, so using the most commonly
understood attributes is highly desirable.
Example:
'Ascend-Idle-Limit' is a VSA that only works on Ascend NAS.
'Idle-Timeout' does the same thing, and works on all NAS.
So, you'd want to use Idle-Timeout, as it's more "portable".
-Chris
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