RADIUS Extensions for IP Port Configuration and Reporting

[Alan DeKok]

On Nov 23, 2019, at 7:35 AM, Ali Arslan via Freeradius-Users <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org> wrote:
> 
> An ISP company uses NAT not to assign a distinct real IP to each user because of insufficient number of real IP.
> And such ISP companies need NAT IPDR (Internet Protocol Detail Record) report with  following format:
> 
> User_Name | Private_IP | Private_IP_Port_Range_Start | Private_ IP_Port_Range_End |Real_IP | Real_IP_Port_Range_Start | Real_IP_Port_Range_End|Session_Star_Date | Session_EndUpdate_Date | Upload_Byte | Download_Bype | Session_Dsiconnect_Message | Session_State | Session_PVC | Service_Number | Session_Code
> 
> Here it is needed to get/set IP source transport ports allocated to a user but could not find attributes of such kind in freeRadius. In searching for that info i found RFC 8045  https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8045 which defines attributes IP-Port-Limit-Info, IP-Port-Range, IP-Port-Forwarding-Map.
> 
> Does freeRadius current version (3.0) has support for RFC 8045 ?

  Yes.  There's a "dictionary.rfc8045" file which is included with the server.

> Are there any way to get the transport port allocated to a user when accounting session starts and write this info in radacct in a custom column so that we can use that port in IPDR reporting?

  Fix the NAS so that it sends those attributes.

  FreeRADIUS isn't the NAS.  FreeRADIUS has no idea what those ports are.  It can't invent values to put into the accounting tables.  Only the NAS has that information.

  Alan DeKok.