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* NAS-IP-Address and other "ipaddr" encoding inconsistencies

  I've confirmed some reports that the Alcatel 5620 SAM Release 3.0
  and possibly other endpoints from this or other vendors, are
  improperly encoding the IP address in the NAS-IP-Address tuple. The
  relevant RFCs state that NAS-IP-Address should be encoded as four
  octets, MSB. However, this device seems to be packing the argument
  as a plain string.

  This error may manifest itself as a parameter length mismatch with
  inet_ntoa() in earlier versions of Net::Radius. A packet dump
  exhibiting this problem looks like this...

  $ tcpdump -vvv -nr tcpdump-radius.out
  reading from file tcpdump-radius.out, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet)
  16:13:29.540605 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 250, id 41011, offset 0, flags
  [DF], length: 108) 10.120.156.15.33452 > 161.196.109.5.1645: RADIUS, 
  length: 80
        Access Request (1), id: 0x78, Authenticator: ...
          NAS IP Address Attribute (4), length: 15, Value: ERROR: length 13 != 4
            0x0000:  3130 2e31 3230 2e31 3536 2e31 35

  Note the error pointed out by tcpdump, referring to the length of
  the attribute.
	    
  In order to improve interoperability, I've included code that allows
  decoding of these packets, by simply returning the enclosed string
  "as is" to the calling script.