Matching Rule

A record in the radius database describing a particular rule for matching an incoming request is called a Matching Rule. Each such rule defines an action to be taken when the match occurs.

The Matching Rule consists of three distinct parts:

Label

This is used to identify the rule. The special usernames DEFAULT and BEGIN are reserved. These will be described in detail below.

Left-Hand Side (LHS)

The list of attribute-value pairs used for matching the profile against an incoming request.

Right-Hand Side (RHS)

The list of attribute-value pairs that define the action to be taken if the request matches LHS.

The following radius configuration files keep data in a Matching Rule format: `hints', `huntgroups' and `users'. Although they keep data in similar format, the rules that are used to match incoming requests against contents of these files differ from file to file. The following section describes these rules in detail.

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