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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 - libfdproto : this shared library provides the functions to manipulate Diameter
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15 messages and dictionary. This library is meant to be re-used by other projects
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16 that would require parsing or manipulating Diameter messages.
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18 - libfdcore : this shared library contains the core of the framework. It establishes
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19 the network connections with other Diameter peers and performs the tasks described
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20 in Diameter Base Protocol, such as watchdogs, basic routing, ... It also handles
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21 the loading of extensions (see below).
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23 - freeDiameterd : this simple daemon parses the command line and initializes the
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24 freeDiameter framework. Use it for your Diameter server & agent components.
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25 In case of Diameter clients, you probably will prefer linking the libfdcore
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26 directly with your client application that must be made Diameter-aware.
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28 - extensions : the extensions provide the mean to augment the features of the
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29 freeDiameterd framework. Extensions can provide the handling of a Diameter
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30 server application, but also advanced routing features, peer management, etc.
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33 See http://www.freediameter.net/ for more information on the project.
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35 freeDiameter was previously known as the "waaad" project (WIDE AAA Daemon)
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37 This project is not related to the "freediameter" project from Sun on sourceforge.
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39 Author: Sebastien Decugis.
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41 See LICENSE file for legal information on this software.
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43 See INSTALL for information on building and using this software.
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