On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> wrote:

I have a local module here which blindly sends out an extra copy of an accounting packet to target host(s) you specify, without waiting for any acknowledgement.  We use it for teeing off accounting to various packet shapers.

Because the module doesn't maintain any state, i.e.  wait for acknowledgement or resend if no ack received, it's very lightweight and there are no queues or buffers to overflow.

I can probably get permission to release the code if you're interested.

Please do :D It's much better than having to reinvent the wheel. -- Fajar

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 09:25:23AM +0100, Alan DeKok wrote:

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We use it for teeing off accounting to various packet shapers.

Which do... what?

Some sort of class-of-service stuff, I believe, which requires knowing which username is on which (dynamic) IP. There is periodic interim accounting, so if the occasional stop or start packet is lost, eventually it will correct itself. Quite possibly using type=detail would be better. But if I were sending to, say, three remote servers, would I need to write to three separate detail files? A comment in the 'robust-proxy-accounting' example says: # Note that you can have only ONE "listen" section reading # detail files from a particular directory. ... # ... Having two "listen" sections reading detail files # from the same directory WILL cause problems. The packets # may be read by one, the other, or both "listen" sections. I'm having difficulty locating any documentation for "type = detail", and in particular, whether it deletes files after using them. Digging around I found src/main/detail.c and as far as I can see it first renames the detail file, then deletes it when complete. Regards, Brian.

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:06:51AM +0000, Brian Candler wrote:

Tim McNabb wrote:

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I was wondering if it is possible to forward accounting packets to another server while also keeping the packets on the local machine. I’m working on integrating a Netsweeper appliance and the company is saying that I need to forward accounting packets to the appliance in order for it to set policies correctly. Has anyone ever done this or would be willing to forward some good documentation on how this can be done?

I have a local module here which blindly sends out an extra copy of an accounting packet to target host(s) you specify, without waiting for any acknowledgement. We use it for teeing off accounting to various packet shapers.

Because the module doesn't maintain any state, i.e. wait for acknowledgement or resend if no ack received, it's very lightweight and there are no queues or buffers to overflow.

I can probably get permission to release the code if you're interested.

I have now secured this permission. The module is available as an attachment to this ticket: https://bugs.freeradius.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151 and also on github: https://github.com/candlerb/freeradius-server/tree/candlerb/packetblast Regards, Brian.

Is it possible to do this with copy-acct-to-home-server? Whit copy-acct-to-home-server I can't get it. Have you get to copy the same set of information from one server to another? Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://freeradius.1045715.n5.nabble.com/Sending-accounting-packets-to-more-t... Sent from the FreeRadius - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Hi Alan, Sorry very much, but I was desperate. Now I understand how can I do this. Following documentation and re-reading it, I understand that I can use radrelay.conf configuration to do an exactly replica, obviously with a second detail file created and with a reader and a writer configurated. I have opened my eyes! However, I think that there are a lot of answers that cause confusion. Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://freeradius.1045715.n5.nabble.com/Sending-accounting-packets-to-more-t... Sent from the FreeRadius - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.