How to start a session

[San]

Ernesto, thanks a lot for quick reply.

I have used the radtest command and I can get access
accept successfully.

What I don't know understand is the next step (after
NAS authenticate and authorize). 

How can we measure the users usage. Where should I put
the attribute session start and how i use the session
stop. (what are the command?)

Do I need to write external script to calculate this?

The scenario is I want to know how big bandwith that
used by users during the login time.

I really lost in this part. Every documents that I can
find only explain until authenticate and authorize
between NAS and server. But after that I don't have
clue.

Hope you can understand and be patient with my very
basic(amateur) questions.

Best regards
santy

--- Ernesto Freyre Ramírez <efreyre at isp.qnet.com.pe>
wrote:

> You  must use radtest command
> 
> type radtest at the command prompt and this will
> give you hints about how to use it
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: San 
>   To: FreeRadius users mailing list 
>   Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 8:35 AM
>   Subject: How to start a session
> 
> 
>   Dear All,
> 
>   I have implemented freeradius-1.0.5 in Redhat box.
> And
>   I
>   have some questions about it. It have searched the
> web
>   but still can't find a clue or i just missed it
> :(.
>   Also my questions are:
> 
>   1. How do we start the session? I have send the
>   request to the server and got access_accepted. And
> as
>   I know the session is start after we send the
>   accounting_request and get response from the
> server.
>   The problem is how to do that using command
> prompt? My
>   Nas is Suse box (that should be fine right?).
> 
>   I use this command to send acct_request
>   echo "User-Name= Anna"| radclient 10.1.0.76 acct
> -x
>   testing123
>   Is that right? or is there any place I can refer
> to
>   use the radclient command?
> 
>   2. Do I need to write external script to run the
>   command? Because I want to use the session time
> out
>   but seems still not working.(because I don't know
> how
>   to start the session)
> 
>   3. Where should I put the acc_type. Is it in
> server
>   side or nas side?
> 
>   I really hope someone can help me (please...)
>   Thanks a lot in advance
>   Best Regards,
>   Santy
>

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