RE: Forwarding/Logging Accounting to another Radius server without proxy‏

[Benjamin Marvin]

Thanks Alan, I'd just noted that same advice in one of your responses earlier today.  I'll certainly be taking a look.

Thanks much for your time!
-Benjamin

> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:41:49 +0100
> From: aland at deployingradius.com
> To: freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org
> Subject: Re: Forwarding/Logging Accounting to another Radius server without proxy‏
> 
> Benjamin Marvin wrote:
> > I've noted the RFCs list the following:
> 
>   Who reads those things? :)
> 
> > So my question is:
> > Does FreeRadius have built in support for taking responsibility of Accounting retransmission?  
> 
>   No.  It's up to the NAS to retransmit.
> 
> > I currently proxy to an upstream vendor on the off-chance my customers use their services while connected to a servicing NAS.
> 
>   What does that mean?
> 
> >  Accounting turn-around with them is not robust so a NAS gener!
> >  ates a truck load of duplicates then wonders why the accounting server hasn't responded.  Optimally, my own Server would reply and then generate a new accounting record for my upstream vendor.  Also, with the current setup, if the upstream vendor goes offline, my NAS will continue duplicating accounting records until timeout.
> > 
> > I don't control all the connecting NASes so I can't tell them to wait longer.  Overall, it seems simpler to cut the upstream vendor out of the middle of my accounting stream.
> 
>   See raddb/sites-available/copy-acct-to-home-server
> 
>   Alan DeKok.
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