RE: Extending RADIUS Attribute Space

["Glen Zorn" <gwz@cisco.com>]

owner-radiusext@ops.ietf.org <mailto:owner-radiusext@ops.ietf.org>
writes:

> Avi Lior writes...
> 
>> RADIUS does not have a scheme for doing this.
> 
> No, but there are non-standard, or vendor-specific ways to do this,
> or so I believe.  My suggestion was *IF* RADIUS were to have a
> well-defined method (not per-vendor or per-attribute) of performing
> application-level fragmentation and reassembly of attributes, would
> this not solve the problem without changing the existing attribute
> TLV format?     
> 
> -- Dave

Fragmentation and reassembly of attributes is simple, but the maximum
size of a RADIUS packet is small (far smaller than the largest UDP
datagram).

Hope this helps,

~gwz

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