Re: raddump RADIUS packet analyzer

2004-09-24 Thread Alan DeKok
Jonathan Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I'd like to announce the availability of the raddump RADIUS packet 
 analyzer which may be useful for debugging your RADIUS infrastructure. 
 Please see the project homepage at 
 https://sourceforge.net/projects/raddump/ for more details.

  Doesn't tcpdump decode RADIUS packets?

  Or, what benefits do people gain by using radddump, over tcpdump?

  Alan DeKok.

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Re: raddump RADIUS packet analyzer

2004-09-24 Thread Jonathan Moore
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Ah, you are right -- tcpdump does decode them (I hadn't realized this 
when I wrote raddump).

If I may say so, though, having just looked at tcpdump's output, it 
doesn't decode them in a way that's particularly easy to read. That's 
clearly a matter of taste.

Fortunately, raddump is pretty easy to combine with tcpdump in a 
pipeline:

$ tcpdump -s 1500 -w - udp port 1812 | raddump -v
So I would encourage people to try it out to see if they like it. And 
furthermore to provide feedback!

Future releases of raddump will also let people specify customized 
dictionaries for additional attributes (for example, here at UPenn, we 
make use of our own VSAs for certain applications).

Finally, raddump also supports snoop packet capture, for those Solaris 
folks out there.

Jon
On Sep 24, 2004, at 2:19 PM, Alan DeKok wrote:
Jonathan Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to announce the availability of the raddump RADIUS packet
analyzer which may be useful for debugging your RADIUS infrastructure.
Please see the project homepage at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/raddump/ for more details.
  Doesn't tcpdump decode RADIUS packets?
  Or, what benefits do people gain by using radddump, over tcpdump?
  Alan DeKok.
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