Accounting VSAs

[Wesley Spadola]

I should have mentioned in my original e-mail before that we're testing 
FreeRADIUS 1.0.1 on Redhat Fedora Core 3.

Now, according to the Ascend (Lucent) MAX TNT documentation I have, the 
only time Ascend-Data-Rate gets sent out to the RADIUS server is during 
an Accounting Stop packet, therefore I only have the % variables in that 
SQL statement.

Here is a listing of my stop queries:

  sql: accounting_stop_query = "UPDATE radacct SET AcctStopTime = '%S', 
AcctSessionTime = '%{Acct-Session-Time}', AcctInputOctets = 
'%{Acct-Input-Octets}', AcctOutputOctets = '%{Acct-Output-Octets}', 
AcctTerminateCause = '%{Acct-Terminate-Cause}', AcctStopDelay = 
'%{Acct-Delay-Time}', ConnectInfo_stop = '%{Connect-Info}', 
AscendDataRate = '%{Ascend-Data-Rate}', AscendXmitRate = 
'%{Ascend-Xmit-Rate}' WHERE AcctSessionId = '%{Acct-Session-Id}' AND 
UserName = '%{SQL-User-Name}' AND NASIPAddress= '%{NAS-IP-Address}'"
  sql: accounting_stop_query_alt = "INSERT into radacct (AcctSessionId, 
AcctUniqueId, UserName, Realm, NASIPAddress, NASPortId, NASPortType, 
AcctStartTime, AcctStopTime, AcctSessionTime, AcctAuthentic, 
ConnectInfo_start, ConnectInfo_stop, AcctInputOctets, AcctOutputOctets, 
CalledStationId, CallingStationId, AcctTerminateCause, ServiceType, 
FramedProtocol, FramedIPAddress, AcctStartDelay, AcctStopDelay, 
AscendDataRate, AscendXmitRate) values('%{Acct-Session-Id}', 
'%{Acct-Unique-Session-Id}', '%{SQL-User-Name}', '%{Realm}', 
'%{NAS-IP-Address}', '%{NAS-Port}', '%{NAS-Port-Type}', DATE_SUB('%S', 
INTERVAL (%{Acct-Session-Time:-0} + %{Acct-Delay-Time:-0}) SECOND), 
'%S', '%{Acct-Session-Time}', '%{Acct-Authentic}', '', 
'%{Connect-Info}', '%{Acct-Input-Octets}', '%{Acct-Output-Octets}', 
'%{Called-Station-Id}', '%{Calling-Station-Id}', 
'%{Acct-Terminate-Cause}', '%{Service-Type}', '%{Framed-Protocol}', 
'%{Framed-IP-Address}', '0', '%{Acct-Delay-Time}', 
'%{Ascend-Data-Rate}', '%{Ascend-Xmit-Rate}')"

I have also tried X-Ascend-Data-Rate and X-Ascend-Xmit-Rate with no luck.

radrelay when run locally on the test freeradius server with encoded 
production data (Vendor-Specific lines instead of Ascend-* lines) copied 
from our Cistron radius does not display "Vendor-Specific" lines /or/ 
the resultant "Ascend-*" lines that should be replacing the V-S lines 
when radrelay is run with -xx.  My SQL statements end up with blank 
information where the %{} replacements are.

radrelay when run locally on the test freeradius server with decoded 
production data (Ascend-* lines) copied our Cistron radius does display 
the Ascend-* attributes when radrelay is run with -xx, but does not seem 
to change my SQL statements - again, the %{} replacements are blank.

The detail file in both cases are a collection of 5 or 6 days worth of data.

Alan DeKok wrote:
> Wesley Spadola <wspadola at porchlight.ca> wrote:
>   No... they don't get "escaped".  Read doc/variables.txt.  The %{}
> syntax tells the server to replace %{foo} with the VALUE of attribute
> "foo".

I read the documentation you pointed me to and it explained exactly what 
I want to know in a concise and straightforward manner - thank you for 
that!  AFAIK all I have to do to include VSAs into my queries is enclose 
the attribute name (eg Ascend-Data-Rate) in the query like so: 
%{Ascend-Data-Rate} and it should replace it with the appropriate value.

Is there any more information I could send forth to help debug my issue?

Thanks,
Wes