Define New Attribute

[Phil Mayers]

On 12/05/2012 12:53 PM, Alexandre J. Correa (Onda) wrote:

> Finished request 0.
> Going to the next request
> Waking up in 4.9 seconds.
> rad_recv: Accounting-Request packet from host 192.168.2.200 port 55834,
> id=129, length=149
>          Service-Type = Framed-User
>          Framed-Protocol = PPP

As you can see - Accounting packets don't automatically contain 
attributes you send in an Accept.

The only attribute that is "reflected" from Accept to accounting packets 
is "Class".

You have two options;

  1. As per Alan's suggestion, use a database to store the quota (in 
post-auth) then re-read it in accounting/preacct.

  2. (ab)use the "Class" attribute for it, if your NAS is RFC-compliant 
and properly reflects the attribute. Be warned: I've seen some NASes 
that do this usually, but fail in e.g. 1% of cases.