I do believe that the NAS needs the return packet. Do they have the same acctsessionid and acctuniqueid? --Steve
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 6:40 PM Subject: Re: FreeRadius logging lots of duplicates? > I have three different modem banks that are all logging duplicate > stuff. I have a Portmaster 3, Max 4000, and two Max TNTS. All of > which are logging things 100 times. > > If I tcpdump while it's repeating the logging the NAS box is repeat > sending a bunch of the requests. So I'm guessing it's never hearing > back "I got your Accounting packet" even though the server is > logging it. Do the accounting packets require an acknowledge? > > Scott > > Scott Baker wrote: > > That would make sense, except every packet or session or whatever you > > wanna call each entry in the logfile for each session has the same > > "Acct-Session-Time" > > > > I would expect it to increment if it was doing interval accounting? > > > > Stephen D. Bechard wrote: > > > >> Sounds like your NAS is sending Acct Interim Interval packets, > >> mine is configured to send them every 5-10 minutes during an > >> active session. You should be able to configure your NAS to only > >> send this information during Start/Stop. > >> > >> Enjoy, > >> Steve > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: <freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org> > >> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 3:00 PM > >> Subject: FreeRadius logging lots of duplicates? > >> > >> > >> > >>> I just noticed that in the detail log files I'm seeing LOTS of > >>> duplicates of sessions. If I grep the log files for a specific > >>> "Acct-Unique-Session-Id" it's showing up 72 times!!! Even assuming > >>> one for start and one for stop it's still logging each entry rougly > >>> 36 times. The weird part is that the times for all these entries are > >>> spread across the WHOLE day. So if the sessions occured at 10am, it > >>> will log it them, and randomly throughout the next 24 hours log them > >>> over and over. I haven't checked if it logs the same entry over a > >>> couple of days. > >>> > >>> I'm assuming this is because the NAS box is sending the same > >>> accounting packet over and over again, but I don't know why it would > >>> be doing that. Does the radius need to acknowledge to the NAS box > >>> that it received the packet? What would cause the radius server not > >>> to do that? > >>> > >>> Where can I start to troubleshoot this? > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Scott Baker > >>> Canby Telephone - Network Administrator - RHCE > >>> Ph: 503.266.8253 > >>> > >>> - > >>> List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See > >> > >> > >> http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > >> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See > >> http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > >> > >> > > > > -- > Scott Baker > Canby Telephone - Network Administrator - RHCE > Ph: 503.266.8253 > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > > - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
