Re: [radext] BoF request for IETF 115

Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com> Tue, 04 October 2022 17:59 UTC

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On Oct 4, 2022, at 8:09 AM, Jan-Frederik Rieckers <rieckers@dfn.de> wrote:
> 
> On 03.10.22 10:46, Margaret Cullen wrote:> In our efforts to operate and support a large, proxied RADIUS fabric, we
>> often wish we had a Status-Server equivalent that would cross proxies (like a multi-hop RADIUS ping), with or without a path tracing capability.
>> I’d be happy to contribute to an effort to provide something like that, if others agree it is needed.
> 
> Speaking as a national eduroam roaming operator in Germany, I had issues detecting routing problems and would definitely welcome a probing method that gives better information then "I've started eapol_test and looked at the response using wireshark combined with my radsecproxy logs and it looked ok™"

  There are a few different possibilities here:

* some kind of of traceroute which works its way through the proxy chain.  This would have to be a new packet type.  There are many problems to solve here.  But it would be the easiest thing to define in the short term.

* a "query next hop" packet, which tells you about the state of the next hop
  * this could potentially be extended to include realm information, and topology information

* a global "route distribution" protocol.  That would likely best be done via some non-RADIUS methods.

  Alan DeKok.