Accounting - FramedIPAddress - DHCP/IPPOOL

Alan DeKok aland at nitros9.org
Wed May 10 18:52:36 CEST 2006


mad <psymad at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a problem with the ip address ... because it's dhcpd who give an ip
> address at the client, so freeradius can't have this information.

  Exactly.

> I have try ippool in freeradius (freeradius want to give an ip address but
> the client don't receive). Also I have read that it's impossible to use
> ippool with eap and when there are access point and/or swith between client
> and server ... it's true ?

  It's impossible to use ippool with EAP.

> I have also try other solutions (with syslog-ng who get the ip address in
> the log and insert in acct table ..., a scripts with omshell who permit to
> freeradius to indicate at dhcpd what ip address give at this client ...) BUT
> I think this solution are very unstable ...

  A well written DHCP server should be as flexible as FreeRADIUS, and
allow you to write the IP to an SQL table.

  Unfortunately, there is no such DHCP server.

  Alan DeKok.



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