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

[Tassos Chatzithomaoglou]

Is 12.3.5 in it? What about 7200's?

Dennis Peng wrote:

> 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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> 

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       Chatzithomaoglou Anastasios
Network Design & Development Department
              FORTHnet S.A.
          <achatz at forthnet.gr>
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