com.theorem.radserver3.eap
Class EAPClient

Object
  EAPClient

Direct Known Subclasses:

EAPMD5Client

public class EAPClient

extends Object

Class to handle EAP information for a client.

Constructor Summary

EAPClient(RADIUSClient rc, AttributeList commonList)
EAP client constructor.

Method Summary

AttributeList	getAttributes() Get the server response attributes.
boolean	getDebugIndicator() Get the debugging indicator value.
EAPPacket	getEAPPacket() Get the EAP message packet in the response from the server.
void	logToDebug(String msg) Log a message to the debug file or stdout if debugging hasn't been set up.
void	reset() Reset the client for a new EAP request.
int	send(AttributeList requestList) Perform an authentication with the given attributes.
boolean	setDebug(boolean debug) Set debugging on or off.
void	setDebug(boolean debug, String fileName) Set debugging on or off.

Methods inherited from class Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

EAPClient

public EAPClient(RADIUSClient rc,
                 AttributeList commonList)
          throws EAPException

EAP client constructor. One of the nasIPAddress or the nasIdentifier should exist. It is recommended that both not be defined.

Parameters:

rc - RADIUSClient.

commonList - List of common attributes (User-Name, NAS-IP-Address, NAS-Identifier and so on).

Throws:

EAPException - if the server cannot be found.

Method Detail

getAttributes

public final AttributeList getAttributes()

Get the server response attributes.

Returns:

response attributes.

getDebugIndicator

public final boolean getDebugIndicator()

Get the debugging indicator value.

Returns:

True if debugging is enabled, false otherwise.

getEAPPacket

public final EAPPacket getEAPPacket()
                             throws EAPException

Get the EAP message packet in the response from the server.

Returns:

EAPPacket.

Throws:

EAPException - if there are no response attributes.

logToDebug

public final void logToDebug(String msg)

Log a message to the debug file or stdout if debugging hasn't been set up. This is used to log message to the same place the RADIUSClient logs.

Parameters:

msg - Message to write.

See Also:

setDebug()

reset

public final void reset()
                 throws EAPException

Reset the client for a new EAP request.

Throws:

EAPException - if the client cannot be started or reset.

send

public final int send(AttributeList requestList)
               throws EAPException

Perform an authentication with the given attributes. This method does not perform retries.

Parameters:

requestList - AttributeList containing EAP-Message and Message-Authenticator attributes.

Returns:

packet type from server, either PacketType.Access-Challenge,PacketType.Access-Reject,. or PacketType.Access-Accept.

Throws:

EAPException - if there's a problem.

setDebug

public final boolean setDebug(boolean debug)

Set debugging on or off. Debugging information is written to the standard output. The information includes the packet contents, attributes, and the reason for the Access_BadPacket result from the authenticate() and accounting() methods. The reason is in the title of the packet display. If the output is sent to a file the file is overwritten each time the class is instantiated.

Parameters:

debug - Use true to enable debugging, false to disable debugging.

Returns:

False if the standard output can't be opened.

See Also:

PacketType.Access_BadPacket

setDebug

public final void setDebug(boolean debug,
                           String fileName)
                    throws IOException

Set debugging on or off. Debugging information is written to a file or the standard output. The information includes the packet contents, attributes, and the reason for the Access_BadPacket result from the authenticate() and accounting() methods. The reason is in the title of the packet display.

Parameters:

debug - Use true to enable debugging, false to disable debugging.

fileName - Debugging information will be written to this file. If the file name is null the standard output is used.

Throws:

IOException - if there's a problem opening the debugging output.

See Also:

logToDebug()