<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I want to allow simultaneous use of accounts.</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
However, <b>RFC 2866 </b>says that the<b> Acct-Session-Time</b> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
can only be present in Accounting-Request records where the Acct-Status-Type is set to Stop [Page 17]</blockquote><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Does this mean that RADIUS protocol can not manage simultaneous use of an account?</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">For example, an account with <b>Session-Timeout </b>2 hours is shared by two users.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
User1 login first and use the account for 1 hour,</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">user2 then login (user1 still accessing the account),</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">then user2 turns out two have <b>2 hours</b>, which is wrong and is because that user1 not yet send Acct-Session-Time to the server.</div>
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If RADIUS is not suit for the scenario above, should I try other protocols such as DIAMETER and TACACS+?</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Thanks.</div>