Debian 8 prevents the NAS to generate data volume accounting

[oatech]

Thank you for your answer.
Sure, the client is not/should not be able to interfere with the NAS/FreeRADIUS accounting job.
Yet, something is triggering this strange behavior. And it is triggered by the client ....
The NAS/FreeRADIUS is so basic/classic/simple/straightforward I can’t see what may be happening ...

Here is what I have so far :

. Changing the wifi dongle suppresses the problem. So it’s not an OS issue.
. The NAS is sending 0 accounting values ( checked in FreeRADIUS logs/wireshark). FreeRADIUS is not mis-undestanding the NAS messages.


Debian8 is not the cause. I tried changing its Wifi dongle, and that did fix the problem. So it’s the Wifi dongle that’s the remote cause of this problem.


The NAS debug logs doesn’t bring any clue : It’s a 100€/$ Wifi AP, and turning the logging level to debug only outputs 8 lines for a whole conect/disconect cycle.
This does not bring any significant clue.

As about FreeRADIUS log, they’re too rich for me to be able to understand them. The only sure thing is that the NAS is sending accounting values=0.
FreeRADIUS is not mis-interpreting the values sent by the NAS. It’s the NAS that is sending zero values.


Althought the problem is fixed/dodged, I’d really wish I could understand what may be happening ... 


Subject: Re: Debian 8 prevents the NAS to generate data volume accounting

>Its the NAS that sends the data to the RADIUS server, not the client , so you need to look at debug logs (on the NAS and on the server) to get an idea of why that value is 0 

>alan

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