rlm_perl and accounting -- radrelay?

[Justin Church]

Was there any final word on the direction of this and when it might be 
available?

Thanks.

-jc

Peter Nixon wrote:
> On Thu 07 Sep 2006 15:07, Alan DeKok wrote:
>> Kostas Kalevras <kkalev at noc.ntua.gr> wrote:
>>> Just a side note on the clone packets issue i ve come across it in
>>> another situation. We act as a proxy for various ISPs and we need to
>>> have a way to replicate accounting-on/off packets (which obviously
>>> don't carry a username at realm attribute) to all ISPs. But currently
>>> this is not possible since we have a server logic of one request,one
>>> thread. Being able to use multiple Proxy-To-Realm attributes would
>>> be great.
>>   I think the easiest way to do this is to write a special-purpose 1-N
>> proxying server.  It's special purpose enough that I'm not sure that
>> work belongs in the server core.  i.e. Doing N proxies means what,
>> exactly for pre/post-proxy sections?  Do we add a queue of proxied
>> packets to the REQUEST?
>>
>>   The 1-N proxying server can look for special "proxy to X" attributes
>> in the packet, strip them out, and proxy the packet to N different
>> places.  It can even read proxy.conf, so there's one source for
>> configuration files.  With a little more work, it can also read the
>> "detail" files, and be radrelay, too.
> 
> Being able to selectively replicate an accounting packet N times may not be a 
> standard configuration (although certainly usefull) but proxying 
> accounting-on/off packets to some/all downstream servers is something that 
> almost _everyone_ proxying accounting will want to do. This probaby warrants 
> a new config option in proxy.conf (acctonoff-shotgun=yes/no)
> 
> In particular any downstream servers running ippools need this information... 
> Not to mention people who charge by the minute for a particular service..
> 
> Cheers
> 
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