Steven Staples wrote: > I have been looking at this, and scratching my head. > > It appears as if the (timestamp -(minus) acct-delay-time) does not always = > the actual start time of the session. From my observation, and log reading > script, I have found that there could be a +/- 1 second variance in either > the timestamp, or the acct-delay-times.
RADIUS accounting is to the second. It doesn't include microseconds. > Is there a way to use the microseconds to ensure that these values are > accurate all the time? No. > Is there possibly a better way to create a unique key, rather than what I am > currently using as a unique group of fields: > Framed-ip-address + nas-ip-address + user-name + acct-session-id + > ((timestamp - acct-delay-time) - acct-session-time) Don't use session time or delay time. If your NAS doesn't send NAS-Port or NAS-Port-Id, then it's difficult to create a unique key. The Acct-Session-Id attribute *should* be unique, but many NASes are horrible, and re-use it. Alan Dekok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
