| Brian Waters | 13d9601 | 2017-12-08 16:53:31 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | freeDiameter is an implementation of the Diameter protocol. |
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| 3 | Diameter is a protocol designed to carry Authentication, Authorization and |
| 4 | Accounting (AAA) payload. It is an evolution of the RADIUS protocol (as the |
| 5 | name suggests). |
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| 7 | Diameter is an extensible protocol. RFC3588 (currently under revision) defines the |
| 8 | Base Protocol that all Diameter nodes must support, while other documents define |
| 9 | the additional protocol support for specific applications. Such applications include |
| 10 | for example Network Access Servers (RFC4005), EAP (RFC4072), ... |
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| 13 | The implementation consists in several components: |
| 14 | - libfdproto : this shared library provides the functions to manipulate Diameter |
| 15 | messages and dictionary. This library is meant to be re-used by other projects |
| 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 |
| 19 | the network connections with other Diameter peers and performs the tasks described |
| 20 | in Diameter Base Protocol, such as watchdogs, basic routing, ... It also handles |
| 21 | the loading of extensions (see below). |
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| 23 | - freeDiameterd : this simple daemon parses the command line and initializes the |
| 24 | freeDiameter framework. Use it for your Diameter server & agent components. |
| 25 | In case of Diameter clients, you probably will prefer linking the libfdcore |
| 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 |
| 29 | freeDiameterd framework. Extensions can provide the handling of a Diameter |
| 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. |