Hi, > I understand that this change is what you want, but there MAY be > someone depending on the existing behaviour. This change will then > surely break their current working configuration. They can of course > fix it by reconfiguring the server, taking this change into > consideration, but that is NOT the way to do a stable release cycle.
My explanation was intended only to explain why packet handling gets a tiny little bit faster. But you are right, there is a very minimal impact: normal packets (with User-Name) are always passed through hints, this is unchanged. So, the only new behaviour is that packets without User-Name attribute are also passed through hints, which indeed is new. However, it would only break an existing configuration iff someone relies on the fact that his Accounting-On-Off packets are ignored in the hints run. I don't want to judge on that, but it sure sounds odd if your configuration relies on that. The patch would add consistency where it wasn't before, which is a very good thing IMHO. But I also see your concerns. Stefan -- Stefan WINTER RESTENA Foundation - Réseau Téléinformatique de l'Education Nationale et de la Recherche R&D Engineer 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi L-1359 Luxembourg email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: +352 424409-1 http://www.restena.lu Fax: +352 422473 - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
