Subject: Using radsniff to generate stats

[Rui Ribeiro]

Hi Arran,

I have read the page you refer, and you say FreeRadius has no idea about
the dropped packets. Would it be possible, or interesting to modify
FreeRadius to give directly stats also like for instance named provides an
interface for retrieving statistics?

How about performance of this particular solution of sniffing traffic?  I
wonder how much load? Granted, RADIUS traffic volume is particularly low,
however, in linux, the packets have to be copied to userland to libpcap to
use them, contrary to for example, FreeBSD. (Note: There is the PF_RING
patch. I havent tested it out)

Note: Dont take the comments personally, it is just in the past I have
always favoured solutions that were an alternative to sniffing traffic.

Regards,
Rui


On 3 January 2014 06:11, <freeradius-users-request at lists.freeradius.org>wrote:

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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 19:50:21 +0000
> From: Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb at freeradius.org>
> To: FreeRadius users mailing list
>         <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
> Subject: Using radsniff to generate stats
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> If anyone's interested in how to do it:
> http://wiki.freeradius.org/guide/stats-with-radsniff
>
> Will only work with radsniff from master branch, 3.0.x version is pretty
> much the same as 2.0.x.
>
> If enough people want (and test) the new version of radsniff, it should
> be pretty easy to port it to 3.0.x and get it into a released version
> sooner.
>
> -Arran
>
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