Strange behaviour of freeradius...?

[Peter Nixon]

On Tue 16 Jan 2007 02:22, apolyxrono wrote:
> Hi list ,
>
>
> I have set up a wlan using : freeradius-1.1.4
> (peap-eap/mschapv2-authentication), AccessPoint-3Com7250 and windows xp
> wireless users.  My AP  has the option for accounting and i have set it
> on. I logged the accounting info in the radius database in the radacct
> table to be more specific. When a wireless user connected to the wlan i
> am executing the following sql query:
>
> select  UserName , NASIPAddress , AcctStartTime , AcctStopTime ,
> AcctSessionTime , AcctInputOctets , AcctOutputOctets from radacct ;
>
>
>  and the output is :
>
>
> +----------+--------------+---------------------+---------------------+---
>--------------+-----------------+------------------+
>
> | UserName | NASIPAddress | AcctStartTime       | AcctStopTime        |
>
> AcctSessionTime | AcctInputOctets | AcctOutputOctets |
> +----------+--------------+---------------------+---------------------+---
>--------------+-----------------+------------------+
>
> | sony     | 10.0.0.10    | 2007-01-15 22:33:12 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00
> |            41 |            718 |             164 |
>
> +----------+--------------+---------------------+---------------------+---
>--------------+-----------------+------------------+
>
> After
> If the user select from his wireless card software to disconnect from
> the specific wlan and  make the same query to the database i can see
> that the AcctStopTime have a specific value and accounting for this user
> has stopped.  However if  the user  does not  use his/her wireless
> software to disconnect  from the wlan  and tun-off  the  wlan switcher
> of his/her card  the  accounting is continued (AcctSessionTime is
> counting) on freeradius  but  the  AcctInputOctets and AcctOutputOctets
> stop counting.  Why is that happening ? How should i know when the user
> is connected in the wlan and the user was just turned-off his/her switch
> of wlan ?

If your NAS does not tell radius that the user has disconnected RADIUS will 
not know....

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Peter Nixon
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