Re: Duplicating Accounting Requests / accounting to multiple locations

2011-12-14 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 07:13:05PM +0100, Alan DeKok wrote: > So submit a patch which implements accounting replication which (a) > doesn't write to disk, and (b) is robust in the event of temporary > process/system failures. > > I don't think you can satisfy both requirements at the same time

Re: Duplicating Accounting Requests / accounting to multiple locations

2011-12-14 Thread Alan DeKok
Florian Lohoff wrote: > For most of my purposes i dont care about systems not available for a longer > period as backend systems take care on synchronisation. Then why replicate via RADIUS? Why not synchronise via the backend? > In the past 15 years i have seen a lot of broken Radius implement

Re: Duplicating Accounting Requests / accounting to multiple locations

2011-12-14 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi, On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 05:45:17PM +0100, Alan DeKok wrote: > Florian Lohoff wrote: > > A "duplicate" policy would be what i was looking for. Acknowledge the > > packet to the sending NAS and sending requests to all final systems > > and waiting for their acknowlegde. > > This can be done.

Re: Duplicating Accounting Requests / accounting to multiple locations

2011-12-14 Thread Alan DeKok
Florian Lohoff wrote: > A "duplicate" policy would be what i was looking for. Acknowledge the > packet to the sending NAS and sending requests to all final systems > and waiting for their acknowlegde. This can be done. > A limit in queue or storage capacity > would be acceptable e.g. max 1000 r

Duplicating Accounting Requests / accounting to multiple locations

2011-12-14 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi, i'd like to forward accounting requests to multiple locations. We use radius accounting not just for billing/accounting but also monitoring, tr069 configuration and other stuff so we need multiple locations to send the information to. I have found the home_server_pool stuff but the policys a