Thanks Alan, I'd just noted that same advice in one of your responses earlier
today. I'll certainly be taking a look.
Thanks much for your time!
-Benjamin
> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:41:49 +0100
> From: al...@deployingradius.com
> To: freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org
> Subject: Re: Forwarding/Logging Accounting to another Radius server without
> proxy
>
> Benjamin Marvin wrote:
> > I've noted the RFCs list the following:
>
> Who reads those things? :)
>
> > So my question is:
> > Does FreeRadius have built in support for taking responsibility of
> > Accounting retransmission?
>
> No. It's up to the NAS to retransmit.
>
> > I currently proxy to an upstream vendor on the off-chance my customers use
> > their services while connected to a servicing NAS.
>
> What does that mean?
>
> > Accounting turn-around with them is not robust so a NAS gener!
> > ates a truck load of duplicates then wonders why the accounting server
> > hasn't responded. Optimally, my own Server would reply and then generate a
> > new accounting record for my upstream vendor. Also, with the current
> > setup, if the upstream vendor goes offline, my NAS will continue
> > duplicating accounting records until timeout.
> >
> > I don't control all the connecting NASes so I can't tell them to wait
> > longer. Overall, it seems simpler to cut the upstream vendor out of the
> > middle of my accounting stream.
>
> See raddb/sites-available/copy-acct-to-home-server
>
> Alan DeKok.
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