Time-of-day RADIUS accounting

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Thu Sep 13 22:11:08 CEST 2012


On 09/13/2012 08:51 PM, DataWizApp wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wonder whether RADIUS can be easily extended to track the usage in
> every hour (or 30 mins) of the day?
> The current ACCT START/STOP and INTERIM UPDATE INTERVAL are
> per-session basis and hence it is hard to track the usage of each
> session in every hour.

This is better done by polling, such as with SNMP or other APIs. RADIUS 
doesn't let you control the time of an accounting packet - just the 
interval.

In any case, as others have said, this would be something the NAS did, 
not FreeRADIUS.


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