Re: Logging raw accounting packets

2012-08-18 Thread Alan Buxey
A bit of radsniff and even raddebug (just capturing accounting packets) via radmin might be enough to capture the badness they are sending? alan - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

Re: Logging raw accounting packets

2012-08-18 Thread Alan DeKok
Brian Candler wrote: > The reason: vendors have bugs in their accounting implementations, and we > want to be able to show them the original raw packets to prove it's not our > accounting collectors which are mis-interpreting the data. My $0.02 is that you should name && shame the vendors. This

Re: Logging raw accounting packets

2012-08-18 Thread Brian Candler
> There's no module to do this. There are very few reasons to do this, > IMHO. The reason: vendors have bugs in their accounting implementations, and we want to be able to show them the original raw packets to prove it's not our accounting collectors which are mis-interpreting the data. The pr

Re: Logging raw accounting packets

2012-08-17 Thread Alan DeKok
Brian Candler wrote: > I would like to put accounting logs into some sort of database, but store > the entire raw binary packet as well as some decoded attributes. I'd suggest using tcpdump for raw packets. > I can think of plenty of options for the storage: e.g. mysql Blob column, > CouchDB bi

Logging raw accounting packets

2012-08-17 Thread Brian Candler
I would like to put accounting logs into some sort of database, but store the entire raw binary packet as well as some decoded attributes. I can think of plenty of options for the storage: e.g. mysql Blob column, CouchDB binary attachment, MongoDB etc. But I can't see how to get at the raw packet