0 Session Length, radrelay or Freeradius causing issues

[A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk]

Hi,
> Hello List,
>
> I have asked this before 
> (http://readlist.com/lists/lists.freeradius.org/freeradius-users/1/7788.html) 
> and Alan DeKok did say that I should place those accounting packets in a 
> different Acct-Type, but that was when I did not wish to log the 
> information but I now need to log the information and replicate to all 
> radius servers.
>
> I need to know why the radrelay application stops replacation when it comes 
> across a 0 session length packet.
> This morning I found a 40Mb backlog file for each server and realised that 
> it was the 0 session-length packet again.
>
> I know FreeRadius does complain about it but it still logs this accounting 
> packet into the sql database. So is it because FreeRadius indicates that an 
> error (0 Session Length?). If so could I not just somehow tell FreeRadius 
> to stop complaining and just accept the stupid packet. (As I am passing 
> configurable triggers via 0 session length radius packets).

I have similar issues (had similar issues) and my detail config now only
fires stuff into the detail log for 'out of band' SQL processing if
that Acct-Session-Time does not = 0.  however, I believe that the latest
CVS version (so this will be in 2.0.5) now handles session time of 0

alan