freeDiameter is an implementation of the Diameter protocol.

Diameter is a protocol designed to carry Authentication, Authorization and
Accounting (AAA) payload. It is an evolution of the RADIUS protocol (as the 
name suggests).

Diameter is an extensible protocol. RFC3588 (currently under revision) defines the
Base Protocol that all Diameter nodes must support, while other documents define
the additional protocol support for specific applications. Such applications include 
for example Network Access Servers (RFC4005), EAP (RFC4072), ...


The implementation consists in several components:
 - libfreeDiameter : the shared library provides the functions to manipulate Diameter
      messages and dictionary. This library is meant to be re-used for other projects
      that would require parsing or manipulating Diameter messages.
      
 - freeDiameterd : the daemon establishes the network connections with other Diameter
      peers and performs the tasks described in Diameter Base Protocol, such as
      watchdogs, basic routing, ...
      
 - extensions : the extensions provide the mean to augment the features of the
      freeDiameterd daemon. Extensions can provide the handling of a Diameter 
      application, but also advanced routing features, peer management, etc.


See http://www.freediameter.net/ for more information on the project.

freeDiameter was previously known as the "waaad" project (WIDE AAA Daemon)

This project is not related to the "freediameter" project from Sun on sourceforge.

Author: Sebastien Decugis.

See LICENSE file for legal information on this software.

See INSTALL for information on building and using this software.