Network Address attribute different in OES Linux to NetWare

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The question relates to the difference between the way the user's
NetworkAddress attribute is registered in eDirectory in OES Linux and
NetWare: if the user's server is OES Linux the NetworkAddress (when
viewed in ConsoleOne) ends up being something like TCP: 10.20.4.15,
whereas if the user's server is NetWare the NetworkAddress would be
IP:
10.20.4.15. Although this doesn't seem like a big deal there is also
some
unpredictable stuff stored in the NetworkAddress attribute in the OES
Linux case: this is not apparent when viewing in ConsoleOne but is
easily
seen when using, e.g., Perl's Net::LDAP and Net::LDAP::LDIF to extract
the
NetworkAddress (comes out base64 encoded). The paras below explain why
this is such a problem.

posted at novell.support.edirectory.linux

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