Accounting responce question.
Alan DeKok
aland at deployingradius.com
Thu May 28 10:56:38 CEST 2009
lamersons wrote:
> Im using FreeRADIUS Version 2.0.4(slackware+postgre) on powerfull x86 server
> with alot of RAM, connected with gigabit to NAS. Load is about
> 5-15record/sec
That machine is overkill, but it should work.
> Once in a while we get double accounting records. I started to take traces
> at NAS side and saw that sometimes AAA doesnt responce to accounting record,
Are you sure that the AAA is *sending* responses? Maybe the packets
are being lost elsewhere in the network.
> NAS thinks that AAA didnt get it and sends it one more time. But AAA gets
> the first one even if it doesnt responce to request, therefore we get double
> record.(debug info is below)
Duplicate accounting records are *always* possible, even if everything
is working perfectly. Your solution needs to be able to handle these.
> I have made debug trace at AAA side. Is it somehow possible to see from that
> trace that AAA did respond and that is NASes(or network) problem that it
> did not recieve responce ?(debug info is below)
Hmm... the debug output does *not* show the server sending a response.
That's odd. When using "radiusd -X", it *should* print out something
like "sending response ..."
Alan DeKok.
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