[OpenSER-Devel] radius issues in IRC minutes

[Juha Heinanen]

Daniel-Constantin Mierla writes:

 > I think my proposal was misunderstood in the first place. By compacting 
 > the RADIUS modules I was not really meaning to remove/merge some of 
 > them, but to collect duplicate code in a single place, and reuse from 
 > there. Also, if we get to the conclusion that it is good to be done, 
 > that does not mean you have to do it :-)

ok, although there is not much duplicated code in radius modules.  there
is already INIT_AV macro that each of them is using.

 > - in the past, any time when the libradiusclient was updated, all radius 
 > modules were affected (e.g., see commits on SER repository related to 
 > migration to libradiusclient-ng or updates/bugs related to this
 > library).

yes, there could be one layer of abstraction between radius modules and
the client library (if it does not mean loosing much performance).

 > - there are many radius servers out there, although not requested so 
 > far, in case one wants to add support for other radius server which has 
 > a different client library, lot of duplicate will be required

this one i don't buy, because radius should be a standardized protocol
on the wire and it thus should not matter, which library one is using to
speak with which server.

-- juha