Strange behaviour of freeradius...?

[James Wakefield]

apolyxrono wrote:
> Hi list ,

> 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 ?

Your NAS should be sending Accounting-Stop with an 
Acct-Termination-Cause of Lost-Carrier or something similar.  If it 
doesn't, then it's broken or misconfigured.  Maybe there's a timeout 
configurable on the NAS for this?

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James Wakefield,
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Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria 3217 Australia.

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