FR Developer for hire: Adding Accounting support to the rlm_ldap module?

[Brian Candler]

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 05:10:11PM +0100, Alister Winfield wrote:
> Writing accounting to LDAP is nasty I understand why it sounds a good idea.  But most LDAP implementations are v-slow on write (hundreds to thousands per second) compared to read (tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands per second). 

Just to add: if you want to track the IP address and usage when a user is
currently online (as it sounds like this is intended for), you'd be much
better off with a redis in-RAM database. freeradius-2.1.12 has rlm_redis.

Regards,

Brian.