(RADIATOR) Multiple Accounting Stop Records

[William Hernandez]

We're having a problem with multiple accounting stop records. The
stop records have exactly a 1 minute difference between them,
.i.e, a stop record at 09:00:00 is followed by another stop
record at 09:00:01.

We starting seeing these multiple accounting stop records about a
month ago. This coincides with some changes we made to our
systems, namely, upgrading to RedHat 7.1, upgrading to Radiator
2.18.1, and switching to TotalControl (HiperArc) NASes.

I need help determining why we're getting there multiple stop
records. Everything was working fine with Radiator 2.16 and with
the Ascend Maxes we were previously using.

I found some messages in the archives about Acct-Delay-Time, but
they're rather old and had to do with Radiator 2.14 and MAXes.
The manual seems to indicate that the default value of
Acct-Delay-Time is 0, but as you can see from the accounting log
the second stop record has a value of 60 which is exactly the 1
minute difference between stop records that we're seeing.

In this a Radiator problem or a Total Control problem or should I
be looking elsewhere.

Thanks in advance.

William Hernández
ESS/PR Webmasters
San Juan, P.R.
Tel: 787-723-5000
Fax: 787-722-6242

-------------------------From the dictionary
file----------------------
ATTRIBUTE       Acct-Delay-Time         41      integer

-------------------------From the Accounting detail
file-----------
Wed Aug 15 08:59:29 2001
        User-Name = "pijuan"
        NAS-IP-Address = 208.249.78.12
        NAS-Identifier = "208.249.78.12"
        Acct-Status-Type = Stop
        Acct-Session-Id = "35455064"
        Acct-Delay-Time = 0
        Acct-Authentic = RADIUS
        Service-Type = Framed-User
        NAS-Port-Type = Async
        NAS-Port = 549
        USR-Modem-Training-Time = 17
        USR-Interface-Index = 1805
        Chassis-Call-Slot = 3
        Chassis-Call-Span = 2
        Chassis-Call-Channel = 37
        Unauthenticated-Time = 4
        Calling-Station-Id = ""
        Called-Station-Id = "6419000"
        VPN-ID = 0
        Modulation-Type = v90Digital
        Simplified-MNP-Levels = ccittV42
        Simplified-V42bis-Usage = ccittV42bis
        Connect-Speed = 48000_BPS
        Framed-Protocol = PPP
        Framed-IP-Address = 63.124.21.132
        VTS-Session-Key =
"W<228>|<171><29><244><232><202><246>4;<208><219><132>
"<173>"
        Call-Arrived-time = 177418488
        Call-Lost-time = 177425969
        Acct-Session-Time = 7464
        Acct-Terminate-Cause = User-Request
        Disconnect-Reason = 8
        Speed-Of-Connection = 48000
        Acct-Input-Octets = 1050588
        Acct-Output-Octets = 2531954
        Acct-Input-Packets = 7333
        Acct-Output-Packets = 7891
        Timestamp = 997880369

Wed Aug 15 09:00:29 2001
        User-Name = "pijuan"
        NAS-IP-Address = 208.249.78.12
        NAS-Identifier = "208.249.78.12"
        Acct-Status-Type = Stop
        Acct-Session-Id = "35455064"
        Acct-Delay-Time = 60
        Acct-Authentic = RADIUS
        Service-Type = Framed-User
        NAS-Port-Type = Async
        NAS-Port = 549
        USR-Modem-Training-Time = 17
        USR-Interface-Index = 1805
        Chassis-Call-Slot = 3
        Chassis-Call-Span = 2
        Chassis-Call-Channel = 37
        Unauthenticated-Time = 4
        Calling-Station-Id = ""
        Called-Station-Id = "6419000"
        VPN-ID = 0
        Modulation-Type = v90Digital
        Simplified-MNP-Levels = ccittV42
        Simplified-V42bis-Usage = ccittV42bis
        Connect-Speed = 48000_BPS
        Framed-Protocol = PPP
        Framed-IP-Address = 63.124.21.132
        VTS-Session-Key =
"W<228>|<171><29><244><232><202><246>4;<208><219><132>
"<173>"
        Call-Arrived-time = 177418488
        Call-Lost-time = 177425969
        Acct-Session-Time = 7464
        Acct-Terminate-Cause = User-Request
        Disconnect-Reason = 8
        Speed-Of-Connection = 48000
        Acct-Input-Octets = 1050588
        Acct-Output-Octets = 2531954
        Acct-Input-Packets = 7333
        Acct-Output-Packets = 7891
        Timestamp = 997880369

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