(RADIATOR) Interim-Updates!

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Skeeve -

The accounting counters start when a session starts on the NAS and the 
accounting alive requests contain the value of the counters when the 
request is sent (the values are *not* deltas). The accounting stop shows 
the final values for each of the counters. Of course you should do some 
testing to verify that your NAS does actually do the right thing (TM).

BTW - many operators simply use accounting stops only.

regards

Hugh


On Wednesday, August 21, 2002, at 10:24 PM, Skeeve Stevens wrote:

> Hey Hugh,
>  
>     We are actually writing our own billing system.... and I am not 
> quite sure about these alive records.
>  
> Is the data these alive records a cumulative amount 'since' the start 
> or the previous alive record.... and... if there is a stop record, can 
> that simply be considered the last alive record?
>  
> ...Skeeve
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-radiator at open.com.au [mailto:owner-radiator at open.com.au] On 
> Behalf Of Hugh Irvine
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 5:25 PM
> To: Solomon Sokolovsky
> Cc: radiator at open.com.au
> Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) Interim-Updates!
>
> Hello Solomon -
>
> Radiator will automatically log Interim-Updates (radius accounting 
> alive requests), however you will need to use a billing system that 
> understands them to process them correctly. You will find a list of 
> billing systems we have tested against here:
>
> http://www.open.com.au/radiator/technical.html#billing
>
> regards
>
> Hugh
>
>
> On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 07:07 PM, Solomon Sokolovsky wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>  
> We want to be able to use this for broadband customers which don't 
> disconnect for ages, and use
> the Interim-Updates functions like what Cisco and Redback use.  But 
> need to be able to accumulate the usage and
> understand it correct!  The Interim-Updates need to be accumulated in 
> relation to the start and stop packets.  Do you know of any billing 
> system, able to work with Radiator and understand Interim-Updates?  Is 
> it possible to have a script which can in the Radius which calculated 
> the required info and get it imported in to a billing package?
>  
> Thanks All!
> Solomon
>
>
> NB: I am travelling this week, so there may be delays in our 
> correspondence.
>
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>

NB: I am travelling this week, so there may be delays in our 
correspondence.

--
Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server
anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows 95/98/2000, NT, MacOS X.
-
Nets: internetwork inventory and management - graphical, extensible,
flexible with hardware, software, platform and database independence.
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