(RADIATOR) size and scope of session-id

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Paulo -

>
>
>thanks for your quick reply; as you can guess, I don't understand or
>know the software or the technology, I just got the job of analyzing the
>statistics. I'm trying to make sure all session-id's are unique enough
>to be certain they actually refer to the same session. They're currently
>8 (hexadecimal) digits wide; I thought they were generated by the
>radiusd software, and wondered if in that case, perhaps we could make
>them wider. But if they're generated by the NAS, the combination of
>NAS/Session-Id/Period where Period is YearMonth for instance, is
>probably unique enough to suit me.


Correct - it is the combination that is unique.


>My other question is, are the session-ids not reset to zero when the
>software restarts, but when the NAS is restarted?
>

The session-id's will be reset when the NAS restarts and also when 
the counter wraps around on the NAS (assuming it stays up that 
long....).

regards

Hugh

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