Peculiar Input/Output Octet Data In Alive/Stop Packets

[Tim O'Donovan]

Resolved - turned out to be a problem at the NAS provider's end.


Kind regards,
Tim O'Donovan

Tim O'Donovan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The majority of alive and stop packets received by our FreeRadius server
> contain correct input and output octet data, but there are a number of
> users that receive a UNIX time formatted integer translating to midnight
> of the day the packet was received instead of the correct data.
> 
> Here's an example of such a packet, note the output octets:
> 
> Tue Jun 13 16:05:30 2006
>         User-Name = "xxx at xxx"
>         NAS-IP-Address = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>         NAS-Port = 29
>         Service-Type = Framed-User
>         Framed-Protocol = PPP
>         Framed-IP-Address = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>         Proxy-State = 0x42543030326436336366643134
>         Acct-Status-Type = Alive
>         Acct-Delay-Time = 0
>         Acct-Input-Octets = 899858807
>         Acct-Output-Octets = 1150153200
>         Acct-Session-Id = "0002576E"
>         Acct-Authentic = RADIUS
>         Acct-Session-Time = 1583103
>         Acct-Input-Packets = 7437599
>         Acct-Output-Packets = 8973389
>         NAS-Port-Type = Virtual
>         Client-IP-Address = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>         Acct-Unique-Session-Id = "372fc40c32b2b500"
>         Timestamp = 1150211130
> 
> 
> The output octets figure 1150153200 translates to Tue Jun 13 00:00:00
> 2006 GMT.
> 
> We currently do not have direct access to the NAS servers that are
> sending across this data, but we have worked together with our provider
> towards replicating this through testing. In each case the expected data
> is reported and we have yet to reproduce the error manually.
> 
> As the data transfer has only recently become an area we wish to monitor
> and log, it is impossible to tell whether this has always been occurring.
> 
> Has anyone experienced this before?
> 
> Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> Tim O'Donovan
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