Dave Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a Freeradius server (v0.8.1) where I may configure multiple
> accounting methods in radiusd.conf. These could be any of the ones
> supplied with Freeradius, like detail, radutmp, etc, or a new one that I
> wrote. My new one may succeed or fail in writing the accounting
> record. Currently, I return RLM_MODULE_FAIL if it fails and
> RLM_MODULE_OK if it succeeds. The problem is, if I run another method
> like detail first and it succeeds, then I run mine and it fails, the
> accounting group returns failure and no Accounting-Response is sent. Is
> that the correct behavior?
That depends on what you mean by "correct". It's the way it
currently works...
> If not, should my accounting method return RLM_MODULE_NOOP or some
> other code in the failure case? I looked at rlm_detail..c and it
> returns RLM_MODULE_FAIL in its failure cases. I thought we should
> send Accounting-Response if any succeed, so the remaining
> Accounting-Requests will be sent.
I think that's a good idea. The accounting modules can generally
return "NOOP", which is better in some cases.
However, the SQL modules should return *something* useful when the
database is down. This will allow configurable fail-over for SQL
back-ends.
Alan DeKok.
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