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1 freeDiameter is an implementation of the Diameter protocol.
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3 Diameter is a protocol designed to carry Authentication, Authorization and
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4 Accounting (AAA) payload. It is an evolution of the RADIUS protocol (as the
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5 name suggests).
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7 Diameter is an extensible protocol. RFC3588 (currently under revision) defines the
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8 Base Protocol that all Diameter nodes must support, while other documents define
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9 the additional protocol support for specific applications. Such applications include
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10 for example Network Access Servers (RFC4005), EAP (RFC4072), ...
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13 The implementation consists in several components:
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14 - libfreeDiameter : the shared library provides the functions to manipulate Diameter
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15 messages and dictionary. This library is meant to be re-used for other projects
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16 that would require parsing or manipulating Diameter messages.
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18 - freeDiameterd : the daemon establishes the network connections with other Diameter
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19 peers and performs the tasks described in Diameter Base Protocol, such as
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20 watchdogs, basic routing, ...
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22 - extensions : the extensions provide the mean to augment the features of the
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23 freeDiameterd daemon. Extensions can provide the handling of a Diameter
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24 application, but also advanced routing features, peer management, etc.
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27 See http://www.freediameter.net/ for more information on the project.
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29 freeDiameter was previously known as the "waaad" project (WIDE AAA Daemon)
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31 This project is not related to the "freediameter" project from Sun on sourceforge.
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33 Author: Sebastien Decugis.
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35 See LICENSE file for legal information on this software.
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37 See INSTALL for information on building and using this software.
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