Re: [radext] Review of draft-ietf-radext-bigger-packets-02.txt

Alejandro Perez Mendez <alex@um.es> Thu, 26 February 2015 18:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [radext] Review of draft-ietf-radext-bigger-packets-02.txt
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El 26/02/15 a las 19:06, Sam Hartman escribió:
>>>>>> "Alejandro" == Alejandro Perez Mendez <alex@um.es> writes:
>      Alejandro> Hi Alan,
>
>      Alejandro> thanks for the explanation. It is now clear. It serves to
>      Alejandro> build a unique key in the form of (ID,
>      Alejandro> Original-Packet-Code) which is used by the Client to
>      Alejandro> match it with the corresponding request, as ID by itself
>      Alejandro> cannot do it (is the Client allowed to create parallel
>      Alejandro> Access-Requests and Accounting-Requests with the same
>      Alejandro> ID?)
>
>  From my edit buffer:
>
>        <t>A Protocol-Error packet MUST contain a Original-Packet-Code
>        attribute,
>        along with an Error-Cause attribute.  Other attributes MAY be
>        included if desired.  The Original-Packet-Code contains the code
>        from the reque\
>        st that generated the protocol error so that clients can
>        disambiguate requests \
>        with different codes and the same ID.
>
> Is that sufficient?

It is for me.