5.24 State

5.24. State

Description

  This Attribute is available to be sent by the server to the client
  in an Access-Challenge and MUST be sent unmodified from the client
  to the server in the new Access-Request reply to that challenge,
  if any.

  This Attribute is available to be sent by the server to the client
  in an Access-Accept that also includes a Termination-Action
  Attribute with the value of RADIUS-Request.  If the NAS performs
  the Termination-Action by sending a new Access-Request upon
  termination of the current session, it MUST include the State
  attribute unchanged in that Access-Request.

  In either usage, the client MUST NOT interpret the attribute
  locally.  A packet must have only zero or one State Attribute.
  Usage of the State Attribute is implementation dependent.

A summary of the State Attribute format is shown below. The fields are transmitted from left to right.

0                   1                   2
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- | Type | Length | String ... +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-

Type

  24 for State.

Length

  >= 3

String

  The String field is one or more octets.  The actual format of the
  information is site or application specific, and a robust
  implementation SHOULD support the field as undistinguished octets.

  The codification of the range of allowed usage of this field is
  outside the scope of this specification.