>> We bill based on data from radius, using dpkg install of Freeradius2.0.4 >> with mysql, >>however, when a user maintains a connection for say longer >> than a month, it throws our accounting out. >> >That's because your billing program can't count.
Youre right, it merely sums totals of AcctInputOctets, AcctOutputOctets for all records that occur during that month. >> What we would like to do, is at the end of each month (Just before date >> rolls into next month), the current accounting record to stop, a new record >> to start (As if a start record had been recieved) without disconnecting the >> user from the nas. Giving the appearance in the radacct table, the the user >> disconnected and reconnected, keeping all data records for that month, >> within that month. >> >Don't do that. Im curious as to why not? - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html