Artur Hecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> take a look at the state attributes. your NAS is truncating the State
> attribute which was issued by Radius to 64 hexadecimal characters, i.e.
> 256bit (64*4):
> 
> issued:
> 0x6d2728c26e0a5e55a7067440895cbafc619d893d72e45a66b2612d2defb73fafc8b0590f
> 
> received:
> 0x6d2728c26e0a5e55a7067440895cbafc619d893d72e45a66b2612d2defb73faf

  The software on your NAS must have been written by the same people
who wrote the Merit RADIUS server.

> i have no idea if this behaviour is RFC-correct or not. the problem
> doesn't or didn't occur with other radius servers, probably because
> their state attributes are always/were by chance shorter.

  Mangling the State attribute is explicitely prohibited by the RFC's.

> Raghu, Alan, what do you think? are the state attributes too long or is
> the NAS firmware broken?

  I wouldn't object to making the State attribute shorter, but the NAS
is definitely broken.

> Jorge: you can try to take a look in the radius RFC if you can find a
> limitation for the state attribute...

  http://www.freeradius.org/rfc/attributes.html

  and click on 'State'.

  Alan DeKok.

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