(RADIATOR) Lost Stop Record Scripts

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Paul -

No I don't, but someone else on the list might know.

Anyone?

regards

Hugh


On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 15:09, Paul wrote:
> Hugh,
>
> Do you know where I could find one of the below mentioned scripts to run in
> cron to scan the session table?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Hugh Irvine
> To: Paul ; radiator at open.com.au
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 12:53 PM
> Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) Lost Stop Record Scripts
>
>
>
> Hello Paul -
>
> The "lost stop record" problem is in many ways directly due to the design
> of the radius protocol, as it is based on UDP and records can and do go
> missing.
> There are also various NAS software bugs that can cause accounting packets
> to
> go missing as well.
>
> Most operators tend to do their accounting based on stop records alone and
> treat the lost records as operating overhead.
>
> Note that you could do something with a cron job that scans the session
> database and generates a stop record for any "stale" record and then
> deletes it. This is not a standard Radiator feature however.
>
> regards
>
> Hugh
>
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 11:24, Paul wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Does anyone have any scripts that can scan through a logfile and/or an
> > SQL table and locate lost stop records, or identify which sessions have
> > been lost based on Alive packets. We are having problems with Lost stop
> > records and need to locate them so we can pass them onto our developers.
> > Any
>
> advice
>
> > or scripts would be apprciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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