Subject: Using radsniff to generate stats

[Arran Cudbard-Bell]

On 3 Jan 2014, at 14:44, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:

> Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
>> If you wanted to do it with another plugin, AFAIK there are no per-socket counters, only global ones,
> 
>  For RADIUS packets?  The server tracks global *and* per-socket
> counters of packets in, out, etc.  See the radmin "stats" command.

I was referring to UDP recv buffer counters (which you can use to detect UDP recv buffer exhaustion). You can't get per socket counters, or even per interface counters from the kernel. At least not on Linux.

>> There's not a viable alternative in this case. As the page also stated, this is also intended to be used with black box appliances, such as ACS, IAS, NPS and various hardware appliances (most of which are actually running FreeRADIUS, but often very old versions with truly 'special' configurations).
> 
>  We help make ACS better. :)

Or at least highlight it's suckyness :)

Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb at freeradius.org>
FreeRADIUS Development Team

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