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