STATE attribute

Jouni Malinen j
Fri Jan 30 01:06:49 PST 2015


On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 09:30:44AM +0530, Sarah Thomas wrote:
>  When we are encapsulating into Radius packet and sending to radius server,
> there is a check to see whether its a response to the previous
> radius_access_challenge received from radius server. If that is the case,
> then "state" attribute is being stored.
> 
> Why is "state" so important and what is the idea behind it?

It provides an option for RADIUS server to manage state for an
authentication session. See RFC 2865, 5.24.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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