Could you have two instances of RADIUS, one for the middle-man and ignore the accounting from that server?
-- Leigh Steve Bertrand wrote: > Arie Vayner wrote: > >> You need also to remember that in many cases the DSL link is not provided by >> the actual ISP. In many cases this is a wholesale scenario which uses L2TP >> to forward the PPP session from the telco/DSL provider to the ISP. >> In many cases there would also be another L2TP hop to another >> sub-ISP/customer. >> > > I have this exact setup (we are the sub-ISP). Sorry to sway this thread, > but it seems like a good opportunity to ask about a problem I'm having. > > We went from a setup where the DSL provider's LNSs would auth/acct > against our RADIUS server. This was working great for billing as > previously discussed. > > Recently, there was another ISP inserted into the mix, between us and > the DSL provider. > > The problem is that I now see RADIUS entries from both company's LNSs > for each PPPoE login, which completely throws off the accounting numbers. > > Is there anyone here who can provide any insight as to whether this is > normal, and/or how to fix it? We only do the authentication for our DSL > subs. > > Essentially, I want to stop receiving the LNS connection info from the > DSL provider itself, and only receive the ones coming from the > intermediary ISP. I'm not particularly familiar with the specifics of an > LNS configuration, but it would be great if I had some information that > I could discuss with the provider in hopes to get this turned off (if > possible): > > user 213:ISP xx.xx.38.134 Thu Apr 23 07:37 - 07:41 > user 818:DSL Thu Apr 23 07:37 - 07:41 > > Steve > > >