(RADIATOR) Timestamp attribute

[miko at yournetplus.com]

I have a question along the same lines,,, What is the Timestamp
Attribute??? I could only find a Timestamp in the Tunneling
attributes...

Miko

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-radiator at open.com.au 
> [mailto:owner-radiator at open.com.au] On Behalf Of Dave Kitabjian
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:03 AM
> To: Viraj Alankar; radiator at open.com.au
> Subject: RE: (RADIATOR) Timestamp attribute
> 
> 
> Interesting question.
> 
> The question for you is, what event do you want the stamp for?
> 
> The Timestamp attribute indicates, I think, when the RADIUS 
> packet is actually sent by the NAS. 
> 
> The line at the top:
> 
> 	Wed Jul 24 12:59:01 2002
>       	  Acct-Session-Id = "0002BAA0"
> 	        Framed-Protocol = PPP
> 
> indicates when RADIATOR generated the record. 
> 
> Your 2nd Timestamp attribute might be when RADIATOR is acting 
> like a NAS and proxying the packet to the next RADIUS server. 
> In theory, that could be minutes or hours later.
> 
> So, which of these events do you want to capture? You may 
> want to write a hook to throw out preexisting Timestamp 
> attributes before you proxy them over to the next RADIUS server...
> 
> Dave
> :)
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Viraj Alankar [mailto:valankar at ifxcorp.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 9:36 AM
> > To: radiator at open.com.au
> > Subject: (RADIATOR) Timestamp attribute
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > From what I can understand, the timestamp used in AuthSQL for
> > accounting is the Timestamp attribute that is created in the 
> > request packet by the current time minus Acct-Delay-Time.
> > 
> > However, when I have one Radiator proxying to another, the
> > 2nd Radiator ends up with 2 Timestamp different attributes. 
> > It isn't clear to me which one will be used by the 2nd 
> > Radiator. I see get_attr in the code being called for this 
> > value but wouldn't this just return the first (incorrect) 
> > Timestamp value?
> > 
> > Would it be better for me to depend on a database function
> > for the timestamp? For example, with an insert statement similar to:
> > 
> > ..., now() - 0%{Acct-Delay-Time}, ...
> > 
> > Viraj.
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