Deduplication of accounting requests

[apopov at cybervisiontech.com]

> This list is for FreeRADIUS questions.
We are trying to integrate our system with FreeRadius Server and we want to be sure that FreeRadius will handle our requests as we expect.So, it is FreeRADIUS question. 
We must be sure that FreeRadius server will never drop packages which it should do not drop and all our data will be delivered.
If you have no time to explain all details, just help we to find file where this logic implemented.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan DeKok" <aland at deployingradius.com>
To: "freeradius-users" <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 4:28:18 PM
Subject: Re: Deduplication of accounting requests

On Feb 12, 2016, at 9:25 AM, apopov at cybervisiontech.com wrote:
> 
> From RFC: "The RADIUS server can detect a duplicate request if
>      it has the same client source IP address and source UDP port and
>      Identifier within a short span of time." 
> 
> Does it mean, if my application send accounting requests from one port, I can send only 256 request in short span of time, next request will be handled as duplicate regardless of attributes in it? 

  No.

> How freeradius detect that package is duplicated? What fields used for this purposes ? Where and how it configured? 

  It detects duplicates using (among other things) the request authenticator.

 To be clear, if you're not implementing a RADIUS client or a RADIUS server, you have no reason to worry about this kind of detail.  Just trust that the RADIUS client and server do the right thing.

 If you are implementing a RADIUS client or a RADIUS server, go read the RFCs, and the FreeRADIUS source code.  This list is for FreeRADIUS questions.  We're not in the business of helping people write competing software.

  Alan DeKok.


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