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Re: (ASCEND) Restricting login speed (fwd)
> Folks- the MAX does sent Connect-Info does it not?
No, the MAX does not send Connect-Info. Ascend uses the Ascend-Data-Rate
and Ascend-Xmit-Rate attributes to record the connection speed information.
Neither Ascend-Data-Rate nor Ascend-Xmit-Rate are included in Access-Request
messages, only in Accounting-Request messages.
> Connect-Info contains the connect speed, or it should according to the RFC.
Connect-Info is not part of either RFC 2138 or RFC 2139. Connect-Info is
only part of the RADIUS Extensions INTERNET-DRAFT (draft-ietf-radius-ext-*)
and is not standard yet.
Before the last RADIUS-WG meeting, it was proposed on the mailing list that
the format of the Connect-Info string should be changed, so the hack of
trying to parse the Connect-Info to get the connection speed may disappear.
It is not clear to me that the hack is a good hack since with 56K modems,
you do not have a single connect speed, you clearly have two speeds that
will not be the same (56K is asymmetric).
It is not clear to me that using the "Connect-Info" will do any good in
restricting the transmission speed anyway, since most (all?) modems now
support renegotiation after a connection is made. So the tricky user
could just connect at 14.4K and then boost to 56K after authentication.
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