On Wed, 2006-22-03 at 08:22 +0100, Stefan Winter wrote: > Hi, > > > I understand that this change is what you want, but there MAY be > > someone depending on the existing behaviour. This change will then > > surely break their current working configuration. They can of course > > fix it by reconfiguring the server, taking this change into > > consideration, but that is NOT the way to do a stable release cycle. > > My explanation was intended only to explain why packet handling gets a tiny > little bit faster. But you are right, there is a very minimal impact: > normal packets (with User-Name) are always passed through hints, this is > unchanged. So, the only new behaviour is that packets without User-Name > attribute are also passed through hints, which indeed is new. > However, it would only break an existing configuration iff someone relies on > the fact that his Accounting-On-Off packets are ignored in the hints run. > I don't want to judge on that, but it sure sounds odd if your configuration > relies on that. > > The patch would add consistency where it wasn't before, which is a very good > thing IMHO. But I also see your concerns. > > Stefan The problem I mentioned, when this was brought up, was that the intention for doing this was to use hints for something it was not meant for.
I think it would be better to use hints as a template for a new module that does specifically what you want. If someone wants the functions the new module is designed for, they can configure it in pre-processing or where ever it is required. I don't use hints anymore, but other users who are not privy to the developers list may. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
