Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Vendor ID error in packet-radius.c

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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:53:23 +1000
>> The Ascend Vendor ID for TAOS software is 529, and not 123.
>
>I've no idea to what "TAOS software" refers; the file at


TAOS, True Access Operating System, ie its the software that runs on the Ascend
Products, and some of the new Lucent Products....

>
>    http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/enterprise-numbers
>

I'm not entirely sure if the above URL maps to
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/enterprise-numbers as per RFC 1700

>does, however, say that 123 is the private enterprise number for
>Newbridge Networks and 529 is the private enterprise number for Ascend,
>and the vendor IDs in RADIUS are just the private enterprise numbers
>defined in that file.
>
>Perhaps we should, rather than wiring those private enterprise numbers
>into the RADIUS dissector, have it read an "enterprise-numbers" file and
>generate a "value_string" array from that?
>

assuming *all* of these registered vendors actually have radius authentication
and accounting server and or client embedded in software, and are capable of
doing at least 8 bit VSA, then yes then this seems like a good idea.

>(A side note, to anybody who reads the "enterprise-numbers" file - the
>e-mail addresses are, in at least some cases, immensely out of date; in
>at least two cases, they refer to people who no longer work at the
>company in question, and probably do so in a number of other cases.)