Interim Accouting

[Ivan Kalik]

> May I know the common practise of radius accounting, it is
> common to expect the radius client to provide "interim" accounting,
> ie it sends accounting info every so many seconds interval
> before the session is closed ?

Every so many minutes, not seconds. It doesn't make much sense to have
this interval at less than 5 minutes.

> I just checked Coova chilli, it does it for the clients session
> based on a configurable interval. But for the administrative
> account of the NAS itself, it does not do any interim
> accounting.

Why on Earth would it? Are you going to charge administrators for using
your equipment? Or do you actually pay them to do that?

Ivan Kalik
Kalik Informatika ISP