Re: Calling-Station-Id

["Neville" <nev@itsnev.co.uk>]

Hi thanks for the response.

Any idea what list I need to write to re radius.so plug-in?

I need this in order to do a validation of the Calling IP Address as a form 
of Radius Authentication also.

Thx
Nev
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Unruh" <unruh@physics.ubc.ca>
To: "Neville" <nev@itsnev.co.uk>
Cc: <linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 3:23 AM
Subject: Re: Calling-Station-Id


> On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, Neville wrote:
>
>> Anyone, please.
>>
>> Thx
>> Nev
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nev" <nev@watchuktv.co.uk>
>> To: <linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org>
>> Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 9:53 PM
>> Subject: Calling-Station-Id
>>
>>
>>>  This is my very first post, so apologies if I'm posting to the wrong 
>>> list.
>>>
>>>  OS CentOS 5.3
>>>  Kernel 2.6.18-128
>>>
>>>  My setup is PPTP client >> INTERNET >> pptpd (1.3.4) / PPP (2.4.4.-2) /
>>>  Radius (2.1.6)
>>>
>>>  in /etc/pptpd I have noipparam commented in order that the client's IP
>>>  address is pass to PPP
>>>
>>>  in /var/log/messages the clients ip is passed
>>>
>>>  Sep  7 21:41:32 vpn1 pppd[9945]: ipparam 78.8X.18X.XX           # (from
>>>  command line)
>
> man pppd
>
> ipparam string
>               Provides  an  extra parameter to the ip-up, ip-pre-up and
>               ip-down scripts.  If this option  is  given,  the  string
>               supplied  is given as the 6th parameter to those scripts.
>
>
> pppd does NOT do anything withit. It is up to your scripts to do something 
> with
> it. pppd certainly does not send it on  to the other end.
>
> But why do you care? ppp is peer to peer . It does not use ip addresses. 
> And
> usually your address is given by the remote side since it is what has to
> forward the packets to you, and you simply dump the packets onto the 
> line--
> there is no routing.
>
> Note also that that line in the logs is NOT passing anything. It simply 
> states
> that pppd has received that parameter from the command line. It does not 
> say
> it has done anything with it.
>
>
>>>
>>>  But what ends in Radius is Calling-Station-Id = "8.87" and not the FULL
>>>  IP.
>>>
>>>  I searched google and I can see alot of people have had this problem, 
>>> but
>>>  I've not be able to find a fix.
>>>
>>>  Thx
>>>  Nev
>>>
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