Accounting

[Etienne Pretorius]

Your NAS' need support for Radius Extensions... the Interm-Accounting 
attributes.
Then, once this is working, you can always add a script to the accouting 
section to process the limits you want to impose.

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Etienne Pretorius
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Jonathan Gazeley wrote:
> We at Bristol have used FreeRADIUS with no problems for some time, but 
> I would like to alter the way that accounting is performed, but I am 
> unsure of how to do it.
>
> Currently all the accounting is sent to a MySQL database. The 
> 'radacct' table tells me the start/stop of each session and the amount 
> of traffic passed in that time. However the traffic figures are only 
> updated when the user's session terminates. Is there a way to get 
> up-to-date statistics that can be polled, say, on an hourly basis?
>
> What I'm getting at is that I want each user to have a 
> daily/weekly/etc traffic quota so the radius server should repeatedly 
> check to see if it has been exceeded. Appropriate action will be taken 
> elsewhere is this is exceeded.
>
> Does anyone have any pointers? e.g. can the radius server be queried 
> intermittently for traffic figures? Can the radacct table be updated 
> hourly without forcing a disconnection?
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
>
> ----------------------------
> Jonathan Gazeley
> Systems Support Specialist
> ResNet | Wireless & VPN Team
> Information Services
> University of Bristol
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