Re: question on algorithm for radius based accouting

2007-08-18 Thread Hugh Irvine
On 17 Aug 2007, at 23:35, Alex Rubenstein wrote: Seriously, can I also add that RADIUS interim accounting is almost essential in this scenario. Real world accounting and session boundaries mis-match badly making it almost mandatory to use interim accounting records to get an approximation o

Re: question on algorithm for radius based accouting

2007-08-16 Thread Hugh Irvine
Hello Joe - The Acct-Session-Time is what the NAS is reporting as the duration of the session, and the Acct-Delay-Time is the NAS reporting any delay in sending the accounting request (usually due to retransmissions). The time the accounting request(s) is(are) received by the RADIUS ser

Re: Could it be possible to extend PPPoE Error code?

2007-03-26 Thread Hugh Irvine
Hello Joe - There is a RADIUS "Reply-Message" reply attribute that can be used to send any message you wish in an Access-Reject. However the display of whatever is sent in the "Reply-Message" is up to your NAS equipment and/or connecting client device. In my experience there are almost no

Fwd: (RADIATOR) OSC hosts RadiusExpert Wiki

2006-07-09 Thread Hugh Irvine
Hello Everyone - For those of you who may be interested in RADIUS and/or DIAMETER. regards Hugh Open System Consultants (OSC) has established a free resource for the RADIUS user community to collect and share information about configuring and implementing RADIUS protocol devices and so

Re: Anycast applicable to Radius Server Farm ?

2006-05-09 Thread Hugh Irvine
Hello Joe - On 9 May 2006, at 01:23, Joe Shen wrote: Can you indicate in more detail what the problems were with the L4 switch? We seperate our Radius servers into two farms, each farm has a L4 switch in front. To our understanding, radius authentication info. and accounting info. of a PPP

Re: Anycast applicable to Radius Server Farm ?

2006-05-08 Thread Hugh Irvine
Hello Joe - Can you indicate in more detail what the problems were with the L4 switch? If the loadbalancing is done by source/destination IP address pairs, then you can have problems when a target goes down, as all of the source/destination IP address pairs will get switched to another

Re: (RADIATOR) wireless access point accounting

2002-08-29 Thread Hugh Irvine
this is not an exhaustive survey). Any additions, corrections, modifications, etc. gratefully received. Thanks again. regards Hugh On Saturday, August 24, 2002, at 12:35 AM, Hugh Irvine wrote: > > Hello Everyone - > > I have recently been investigating wireless access points for 80