On Thu 07 Sep 2006 15:07, Alan DeKok wrote: > Kostas Kalevras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just a side note on the clone packets issue i ve come across it in > > another situation. We act as a proxy for various ISPs and we need to > > have a way to replicate accounting-on/off packets (which obviously > > don't carry a [EMAIL PROTECTED] attribute) to all ISPs. But currently > > this is not possible since we have a server logic of one request,one > > thread. Being able to use multiple Proxy-To-Realm attributes would > > be great. > > I think the easiest way to do this is to write a special-purpose 1-N > proxying server. It's special purpose enough that I'm not sure that > work belongs in the server core. i.e. Doing N proxies means what, > exactly for pre/post-proxy sections? Do we add a queue of proxied > packets to the REQUEST? > > The 1-N proxying server can look for special "proxy to X" attributes > in the packet, strip them out, and proxy the packet to N different > places. It can even read proxy.conf, so there's one source for > configuration files. With a little more work, it can also read the > "detail" files, and be radrelay, too.
Being able to selectively replicate an accounting packet N times may not be a standard configuration (although certainly usefull) but proxying accounting-on/off packets to some/all downstream servers is something that almost _everyone_ proxying accounting will want to do. This probaby warrants a new config option in proxy.conf (acctonoff-shotgun=yes/no) In particular any downstream servers running ippools need this information... Not to mention people who charge by the minute for a particular service.. Cheers -- Peter Nixon http://www.peternixon.net/ PGP Key: http://www.peternixon.net/public.asc
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