Problem solved. I had been compiling versions > 1.0.1 without enabling Ascend binary support.
> Are you sure you didn't edit the dictionaries? Are you sure there's > no other attribute 242, of type "octets"? Are you sure you're using > the 1.0.4 dictionaries with 1.0.4? I was in the process of removing and reinstalling freeradius, on what was already a fresh install on a new sever. to make absolute sure of all of that when I noticed a Gentoo local use flag, "frascend", which appears to have been introduced in Gentoo freeradius ebuilds after version 1.0.1 which changed the "default" behavior for later versions to not enable what was previously enabled "by default". Much thanks. -Marc - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html