On Feb 16, 2015, at 11:42 PM, Rui Ribeiro <ruyrybeyro@gmail.com> wrote:
Forgive my ignorance, but are you implying DHCP is keeping up with accounting data?
Did I mention DHCP? No.
I tried to write a script to identify users via a web page to give some accounting stats and quickly reached the conclusion it was not real time
Accounting”update” packets are usually sent every 5-10 minutes. Accounting packets for session start / stop are sent immediately.
So the idea I have is whilst accounting is very useful, it is not exactly real-time, correct?
No. The session stop packet should be sent immediately. Put a little bit of thought into this. It helps. Would we be shipping an IP Pool module that handed out duplicate IPs for *everyone*? Or, are other networks fine, and yours is crap? Which possibility is more likely? Alan DeKok.