[cisco-nas] RADIUS Support of 56-Bit Acct Session-Id -> bug?

[Dennis Peng]

Sorry, made a mistake. The feature is supported in 12.3(2)T and later,
not 12.3(4)T as I initially wrote.

Dennis

Dennis Peng [dpeng at cisco.com] wrote:
> There's been a mixup in the documentation. This feature is not
> available until 12.3(4)T. So it is not available in 12.2(15)T or 12.3
> mainline releases. I'll have the documentation corrected. It does work
> in 12.3(4)T though. ;)
> 
> *Jan 22 17:03:17.993: RADIUS:  Acct-Session-Id     [44]  18  "5600000000000006"
> 
> Dennis
> 
> Tassos Chatzithomaoglou [achatz at forthnet.gr] wrote:
> > After having a look at the following doc on CCO
> > http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122t/122t15/ftradaid.htm
> > i decided to try it.
> > 
> > But i can't understand exactly what is going on!!!
> > 
> > radius debugs (AS5300/AS5350 - 12.2(15)T8/12.3(1a))
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > RADIUS:  Acct-Session-Id     [44]  10  "000AE610"
> > RADIUS:  Acct-Session-Id     [44]  10  "000AE65D"
> > 
> > from CCO:
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > "The acct-session-id variable is a 32-bit variable that can take on values 
> > from 00000000-FFFFFFFF"
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > after configuring "radius-server unique-ident 0" on router
> > 
> > RADIUS:  Acct-Session-Id     [44]  10  "010AE610"
> > RADIUS:  Acct-Session-Id     [44]  10  "010AE65D"
> > 
> > from CCO:
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > The acct-session-id-count and acct-session-id variables are concatenated 
> > before being sent to the RADIUS server, resulting in the acct-session 
> > variable being represented as the following:
> > 
> > ##000000 00000000- ##FFFFFF FFFFFFFF
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > So, where are the 56 bits?
> > 
> > -- 
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> >       Chatzithomaoglou Anastasios
> > Network Design & Development Department
> >              FORTHnet S.A.
> >          <achatz at forthnet.gr>
> > ***************************************
> > 
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