(RADIATOR) Reliable accounting?

[Mariano Absatz]

Hi Mike, Julio

I guess I don't fully understand what's beeing discussed.

Mike, how do you expect to do reliable UDP between Radiator and "something-
else", this being a NAS, or a proxying or proxied Radius server, when you can 
only change Radiator?

Or is there something called "reliable radius udp" that I don't know of? In 
this case, do you have a reference I can glance on? (RFC, I-D, whatever on-
line docs?)

I have the same problem as Julio (and I guess, from the same source ;-).

I'd really LOVE to have accounting records reliably delivered to my Radiator, 
but every time there is a problem with the NAS, I loose packets... (problems 
include "partial" failures, software patches and other oddities), and NO, I 
don't have access to the NAS.


The network in question is wholly owned by my client and, although I have 
seen malformed packets on the wire (not specifically Radius), I guess the 
main culprit of packet loss is not the network per-se but the NAS...


El 1 Jun 2001, a las 12:20, julio.prada at bt.es escribió:

> Hello Mike,
> 
> We have serious problems with acct. requests that are lost.
> 
> Actually we use scripts made by us to check really-used ports and delete
> incorrect entries in RADONLINE table.
> 
> The frequency of the executions of these scripts is high. And they use
> radpwtst to correct bad entries in RADONLINE. So extra traffic is generated
> to maintain a reliable information about accounting.
> 
> We are the carrier and we're very interested in solving this problem. So if
> you want, we could collaborate in testing any development about this theme
> in our laboratory as a 'friendly customer'.
> 
> regards,
> jules
> 
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Mike McCauley [mailto:mikem at open.com.au]
> Enviado el: viernes 1 de junio de 2001 19:32
> Para: radiator at open.com.au
> Asunto: (RADIATOR) Reliable accounting?
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> As we all know, the Radius protocol permits accounting records to be lost
> when
> network packet losses are serious.
> 
> We are working with a third party on the possibility of reliable Radius UDP
> delivery for accounting.
> 
> So I am wondering if there are people who are being badly affected by this?
> How
> bad a problem is it for you? Is the packet loss in carrier network you dont
> control, or in your own?
> 
> Reply to me off-list if you prefer.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> 
> 
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