Hello, I have the same problem the one explained here: http://lists.cistron.nl/pipermail/freeradius-users/2002-September/011562.html
Basically, I set up two redundant sql instances (sql1 and sql2) for accounting: accounting { acct_unique redundant { sql1 sql2 } } and I get accouting done twice (one time on each server). Here is my configuration (to explain de trace) using FreeRadius CVS version from friday 2002/12/06: AAA packets are sent from a unique client to a FR hosted on radproxy machine. This machine knows 2 realms (raceme & raceme_inc) which are forwarded to two other machines (radclient1 & radclient2) with crossed failover: raceme_inc -> radclient1/radclient2 raceme -> radclient2/radclient1 The radclient machines authorize and authenticate on an OpenLDAP servers in failover mode: radclient1 -> radclient2/radclient1 radclient2 -> radclient1/radclient2 And the radclient machines should do accounting in a mysql database also in failover mode: radclient1 -> radproxy/radclient2 radclient2 -> radproxy/radclient1 After the test run, the number of accounting lines on radproxy is strictly equal to the sum of lines from radclient1 and radclient2. So there is no redundancy but duplicity. Here is the trace: rad_recv: Accounting-Request packet from host 192.168.45.20:1814, id=159, length=84 Acct-Terminate-Cause = User-Request Acct-Input-Octets = 12000 Acct-Output-Octets = 1200 Acct-Session-Time = 4 Acct-Delay-Time = 0 User-Name = "u_76@raceme_inc" Acct-Status-Type = Stop NAS-IP-Address = 192.168.45.254 Proxy-State = 0x313632 modcall: entering group preacct modcall[preacct]: module "preprocess" returns noop modcall: group preacct returns noop modcall: entering group accounting rlm_acct_unique: WARNING: Attribute NAS-Port-Id was not found in request, unique ID MAY be inconsistent rlm_acct_unique: WARNING: Attribute Acct-Session-Id was not found in request, unique ID MAY be inconsistent rlm_acct_unique: Hashing ',Client-IP-Address = 192.168.45.20,NAS-IP-Address = 192.168.45.254,,User-Name = "u_76@raceme_inc"' rlm_acct_unique: Acct-Unique-Session-ID = "a9bdef9b769a9438". modcall[accounting]: module "acct_unique" returns ok modcall: entering group redundant radius_xlat: 'u_76@raceme_inc' rlm_sql (sql0): sql_set_user escaped user --> 'u_76@raceme_inc' radius_xlat: 'UPDATE radacct SET AcctStopTime = '2002-12-10 10:46:32', AcctSessionTime = '4', AcctInputOctets = '12000', AcctOutputOctets = '1200', AcctTerminateCause = 'User-Request', AcctStopDelay = '0', ConnectInfo_stop = '' WHERE AcctSessionId = '' AND UserName = 'u_76@raceme_inc' AND NASIPAddress = '192.168.45.254' AND AcctStopTime = 0' rlm_sql (sql0): Reserving sql socket id: 3 rlm_sql (sql0): Released sql socket id: 3 modcall[accounting]: module "sql0" returns ok radius_xlat: 'u_76@raceme_inc' rlm_sql (sql2): sql_set_user escaped user --> 'u_76@raceme_inc' radius_xlat: 'UPDATE radacct SET AcctStopTime = '2002-12-10 10:46:32', AcctSessionTime = '4', AcctInputOctets = '12000', AcctOutputOctets = '1200', AcctTerminateCause = 'User-Request', AcctStopDelay = '0', ConnectInfo_stop = '' WHERE AcctSessionId = '' AND UserName = 'u_76@raceme_inc' AND NASIPAddress = '192.168.45.254' AND AcctStopTime = 0' rlm_sql (sql2): Reserving sql socket id: 3 rlm_sql (sql2): Released sql socket id: 3 modcall[accounting]: module "sql2" returns ok modcall: group redundant returns ok modcall: group accounting returns ok Sending Accounting-Response of id 159 to 192.168.45.20:1814 Proxy-State = 0x313632 Finished request 137 Going to the next request On radproxy: mysql> select count(*) from radacct; +----------+ | count(*) | +----------+ | 74 | +----------+ On radclient1: mysql> select count(*) from radacct; +----------+ | count(*) | +----------+ | 36 | +----------+ On radclient2: mysql> select count(*) from radacct; +----------+ | count(*) | +----------+ | 38 | +----------+ Any help welcome :) Christophe. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html