What kind of Cisco NAS are you using? We have never faced such a problem with Cisco 5300 and Cisco 3640. It always gives eitheir an AsyncXXX or a SerialX:XX (SerialX/XX:XX) format
Regards Vangelis Dave Kitabjian wrote: > I finally tracked down the reason why our Online DB has been reporting > a much lower count of onliners than are actually online. > > Look at the attached sequence of two accounting records. tmeyers logs > on to NAS 216.118.66.25 and Port 105. Then, 3 minutes later, while > he's still online, cheezwhiz logs off of the same NAS and Port, > clobbering tmeyers' entry in the online DB. > > But how can two people have been on the same port at the same time, > you ask? The answer is that when Cisco is (again) lazy, it's easy to > happen. If you look at the Cisco-NAS-Port attribute, you'll see that > they are really on two distinct ports. Cisco is just taking a portion > of the info and plopping it in NAS-Port, even though that means that > many people can be on the same NAS-Port at once. Most manufacturers > come up with a procedure for encoding all that > "Async4/105*Serial7/0:25:3" stuff into some unique, numeric port > number and then put that in NAS-Port. > > Now, if we were enforcing concurrency limits we'd be even more > screwed. > > Has anyone else experienced this? How are you dealing with it? Does > Radiator have any solutions? I wonder if using the Acct-Session-Id for > deletions would be more reliable than matching NAS/Port combos. > Comments welcome! > > Dave > _____________________________ > > Wed Jul 10 15:23:21 2002: DEBUG: Packet dump: > *** Received from 216.118.66.25 port 1646 .... > Code: Accounting-Request > Identifier: 188 > Authentic: > <218><232>t<199>j<163><234><138><27><251><221><133>HsX<142> > Attributes: > Acct-Session-Id = "000087C2" > Framed-Protocol = PPP > Connect-Info = "46667/24000 V90/V42bis/LAPM" > cisco-avpair = "connect-progress=Call Up" > Acct-Authentic = RADIUS > Acct-Status-Type = Start > User-Name = "tmeyers" > Acct-Multi-Session-Id = "0000511D" > Acct-Link-Count = "<0><0><0><2>" > Framed-Address = 216.118.88.4 > Cisco-NAS-Port = "Async4/105*Serial7/0:25:3" > NAS-Port = 105 > NAS-Port-Type = Async > Class = "netcarrier.com" > Service-Type = Framed-User > NAS-IP-Address = 216.118.66.25 > Event-Timestamp = 1026329001 > Acct-Delay-Time = 0 > > Wed Jul 10 15:26:16 2002: DEBUG: Packet dump: > *** Received from 216.118.66.25 port 1646 .... > Code: Accounting-Request > Identifier: 239 > Authentic: <30>u<226><4><138><177><143><248><254>:<165>d<182><<200>? > Attributes: > Acct-Session-Id = "000084AB" > Framed-Protocol = PPP > cisco-avpair = "connect-progress=Call Up" > Acct-Session-Time = 2897 > Connect-Info = "49333/24000 V90/V42bis/LAPM" > Acct-Input-Octets = 349671 > Acct-Output-Octets = 2362531 > Acct-Input-Packets = 3246 > Acct-Output-Packets = 2835 > Acct-Terminate-Cause = User-Request > cisco-avpair = "disc-cause-ext=PPP Receive Term" > Acct-Authentic = RADIUS > Acct-Status-Type = Stop > User-Name = "cheezwhiz" > Acct-Multi-Session-Id = "00004F51" > Acct-Link-Count = "<0><0><0><1>" > Framed-Address = 216.118.90.220 > Cisco-NAS-Port = "Async3/105*Serial7/0:18:21" > NAS-Port = 105 > NAS-Port-Type = Async > Class = "netcarrier.com" > Service-Type = Framed-User > NAS-IP-Address = 216.118.66.25 > Event-Timestamp = 1026329176 > Acct-Delay-Time = 0 === Archive at http://www.open.com.au/archives/radiator/ Announcements on [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.