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RE: Issue 38 - Ordering of filter attributes



I'm working with Paul going through the IEEE802 draft issues.  On issue
38 it appears discussion stopped with the email shown below.  Any
additional comments on this or can this be closed?

MS

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard Aboba [mailto:aboba@internaut.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 5:04 PM
To: Congdon, Paul T (ProCurve)
Cc: Nelson, David; Joseph Salowey; edwin@rsquared.com; Romascanu, Dan
(Dan); Jari Arkko; Sanchez, Mauricio (PNB Roseville); Black, Chuck A;
Nagi_Reddy.Jonnala@alcatel.be
Subject: RE: Rough Notes from Conf Call on RADExt for IEEE 802

> Actually, the issue I was referencing is Issue 38: Ordering of Filter 
> Attributes.  It only describes the ordering requirements of 
> NAS-Filter-Rule and says nothing about different types.  I believe we 
> can potentially close this issue with the following resolution that 
> incorporates Alan DeKok's comments:
>
>  "As per the requirements of RFC 2865, Section 2.3, if multiple
>   NAS-Filter-Rule attributes are contained within an Access-Request
>   or Access-Accept packet, they MUST be maintained in order.  The
>   attributes MUST be consecutive attributes in the packet. RADIUS
>   proxies MUST NOT reorder NAS-Filter-Rule attributes.
>
>   The RADIUS server can return NAS-Filter-Rule attributes in an
>   Access-Accept packet. Where more than one NAS-Filter-Rule attribute
is
>   included, it is assumed that the attributes are to be concatenated
to
>   form a single filter list."

Sounds good.

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