Default to ack unhandled accounting requests?

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Thu Jan 7 14:43:33 CET 2010


Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Just stumbled across a semi-related issue (all accounting modules
> returned "noop" for a request) which made me wonder if not the recently
> added documentation for handling noop accounting requests should be
> promoted to "enabled by default"?

  You mean tell the NAS we logged something that wasn't really logged?

>  It does not make much sense to ignore
> valid accounting requests just because no module knows how to handle
> them.

  They might be valid... but the whole point of accounting is to *do*
something with the packets.

  I understand your point... but I'm a little wary of ACKing packets
when we didn't do anything with them.

  Alan DeKok.



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