sqlcounters for traffic

Alexandre Chapellon alexandre.chapellon at mana.pf
Sat Sep 6 02:52:22 CEST 2008



Edvin Seferovic a écrit :
>
> rlm_sqlcounter: Sent Reply-Item for user scott,
> Type=Session-Traffic-Limit, value=12792
>
> Which part don’t you understand? Sqlcounter returned it. How does the
> log part of the RADIUS Packet looks like? It should contain the
> “Session-Traffic-Limit” if it can be found in the dictionary, right?
>

What i don't understand is that i cannot find this in the sent reply,
whereas it seems to be processed correctly by the module.

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> E:S
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> *On Behalf Of *Alexandre Chapellon
> *Sent:* Samstag, 06. September 2008 01:53
> *To:* FreeRadius users mailing list
> *Subject:* sqlcounters for traffic
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> I want to se sqlcounters to count bytes transferred from clients so
> that i manage quota.
> Aiming this i configured the following counter:
>
> sqlcounter bytesQuota {
>         counter-name = traffic_quota
>         check-name = Max-Traffic
>         reply-name = Session-Traffic-Limit
>         sqlmod-inst = mysqldb
>         key = User-Name
>         reset = hourly
>         query = "SELECT SUM(acctinputoctets + acctoutputoctets) FROM
> radacct WHERE UserName='%{%k}'"
> }
>
> My first problem is that the Session-Traffic-Limit (from the redback
> dictionnary) is not returned. I can't see it neither in the output of
> radtest nor with radsniff.
> Yet, looking at the output of radiusd -X i can see it's correctly
> understood by freeradius:
>
> rlm_sqlcounter: Check item is greater than query result
> rlm_sqlcounter: Authorized user scott, check_item=12000, counter=10891
> rlm_sqlcounter: Sent Reply-Item for user scott,
> Type=Session-Traffic-Limit, value=12792
> ++[bytesQuota] returns ok
>
> Does anyone has a clue?
>
> Alexandre Chapellon a écrit :
>
> You're right, adding the name of my sqlcounter in the instantiate
> section lake it works.
> thx :)
>
> Alan DeKok a écrit :
>
> Alexandre Chapellon wrote:
>   
>
>     whenever i launch freeradius -X I get the folloawing error:
>
>     /etc/freeradius/users[205]: Parse error (check) for entry scott: Invalid
>
>     octet string "101" for attribute name "Max-Traffic"
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>         
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>   The modules are initialized in *order*.  The sqlcounter module creates
> the attributes on the fly.  But... it can't do this if it hasn't been
> run yet.
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>     Line 205 is the line where user scott is defined in users files.
>
>     I have tryed setting up my own dictionnary (which i think shouldn't be
>
>     needed) with the Max-Traffic attribute defined as interger
>
>      
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>     VENDOR ME
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>     ATTRIBUTE       Max-Traffic     1       integer
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>  
>   That isn't the correct dictionary file format, but it's not relevant,
> either.
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>   
>
>     But that doesn't help. I have read all over the web that sqlcounter with
>
>     mysql are considered as stable enough for production , so am quite
>
>     surprised of this issue...
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>     Any idea?
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>  
>   List "sqlcounter" in the "instantiate" section.  It will be
> initialized before the "users" file is read.
>  
>   Alan DeKok.
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