On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:06:51AM +0000, Brian Candler wrote: > Tim McNabb wrote: > > I was wondering if it is possible to forward accounting packets to another > > server while also keeping the packets on the local machine. I’m working on > > integrating a Netsweeper appliance and the company is saying that I need to > > forward accounting packets to the appliance in order for it to set policies > > correctly. Has anyone ever done this or would be willing to forward some > > good documentation on how this can be done? > > I have a local module here which blindly sends out an extra copy of an > accounting packet to target host(s) you specify, without waiting for any > acknowledgement. We use it for teeing off accounting to various packet > shapers. > > Because the module doesn't maintain any state, i.e. wait for > acknowledgement or resend if no ack received, it's very lightweight and > there are no queues or buffers to overflow. > > I can probably get permission to release the code if you're interested.
I have now secured this permission. The module is available as an attachment to this ticket: https://bugs.freeradius.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151 and also on github: https://github.com/candlerb/freeradius-server/tree/candlerb/packetblast Regards, Brian. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html